SAS For Dummies (eBook)

Stephen McDaniel works at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, and isthe Senior Manager of User Empowerment-Business Intelligenceand Analytics. He is a strategic advisor and mentor for thebusiness units in Yahoo! Search Marketing, helping business usersto harness the potential of their data assets for planning anddecision-making. As a member of Strategic Data Systems, he worksclosely with the data warehousing, business intelligence, andanalytic teams on behalf of the business units to provideuser-centric vision and guidance to their efforts. You can reachhim at www.stephenmcdaniel.us. Previously, Stephen was the seniormanager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-Infor Microsoft Office development teams at SAS. Stephen has been aSAS user for more than 17 years and has experience at over 50companies as a statistician, statistical programmer, productmanager, and manager of data warehousing and business intelligence. Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in theBusiness Intelligence Clients division at SAS. Chris began hiscareer at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, creating such hits asSAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment (remember OS/2?) andSAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment. In1997, he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easierto use for non-programmers, and that project evolved into thehugely popular SAS Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris hasworked with ever since.

Introduction.

Part I: Welcome to SAS!

Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World of SAS.

Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS EnterpriseGuide.

Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results withSAS.

Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information.

Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!

Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?

Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute.

Chapter 7: You Want Fries with That Graph?

Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS BusinessIntelligence.

Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics.

Chapter 9: More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain.

Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output.

Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces.

Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those LessFortunate.

Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Co-workers.

Chapter 13: Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS.

Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered.

Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll.

Chapter 15: Setting It All Up.

Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast.

Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SASEnterprise Guide.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 18: Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips.

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators.

Chapter 20: Ten (or More) Web Resources for ExtraInformation.

Index.