This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs to access, explore, prepare, and analyze data. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming for data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It is a prerequisite to many other SAS courses.
Getting Started with SAS Programming
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Getting Started with SAS Programming
This course is part of SAS Programmer Professional Certificate
Instructor: Stacey Syphus
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There are 8 modules in this course
In this module you learn about the course and you set up the data you need to do the practices in the course.
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3 videos3 readings
In this module you learn how to use SAS programming tools and the fundamentals of SAS program structure and syntax.
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7 videos2 readings3 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this module, you learn to identify the features of a SAS table, access data through SAS libraries, and import data into SAS.
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14 videos1 reading9 assignments2 discussion prompts
In this module, you learn to use SAS procedures that provide insights about your data. You also learn to subset data so you can focus on particular segments, format data so you can easily understand it, and sort data to identify and resolve duplicate values.
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16 videos1 reading13 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this module, you learn how to do some common data manipulations, such as filtering rows and columns, computing new columns, and performing conditional processing.
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13 videos4 readings16 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this module, we concentrate on summarizing data by using the SAS procedures that we touched on for data exploration. You also learn how to use titles, column labels, footnotes, and macro variables to enhance your reports and make them more meaningful.
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11 videos2 readings10 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this module, you learn to export SAS tables and results to Excel, Microsoft Word, and PDF files.
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8 videos3 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this module, you learn to use the SQL procedure to read and filter data. You also learn to create and join tables by using SQL.
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10 videos1 reading4 assignments2 discussion prompts
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