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Analyst in SAS
SAS is probably the most commonly used tool in analytics industry. While people
might have different opinions about its sustainability and features compared to other
tools like R and Python two things are for sure:
A healthy market share SAS still holds the biggest market share in terms of
jobs.even in advanced market like the US & the UK, the job market share of SAS would
be at least 40%. In countries like India, it would be more than 70%.
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Ease of learning and awesome support Among all the tools I know, SAS would
probably qualify as the easiest to learn. The language is easy and can be picked up
quickly even by novices.
Those 2 reasons are good enough to consider SAS, if you are just starting in this
Step 0: Why learn SAS?
Step 1: Downloading and Installing SAS

Download University edition by creating a SAS profile. You will also need to download
VMWare or Oracle Virtual box. Here are the links:
Installation notes:
SAS university edition currently works only on 64 bit machines
You will first need to download VMWare Player or Oracle Virtual Box and then
download the corresponding version of SAS University edition.
Step 2: Learning Base SAS

Go through Base SAS training on sas.com . This isa free training and would teach you
basics of SAS language in 24 hours.
Assignment / Quiz: Solve the quiz at the end of each section in the course.
Step 3: Learning SQL

Now that you know base SAS to some extent, you should now look at other way of
accessing data in SAS PROC SQL. Read this article to understand how PROC SQL
If you already know SQL, you would be thanking SAS for creating PROC SQL. Even if
you dont know SQL, you might find it easier to perform day to day data manging jobs
Step 4: Learn Descriptive Statistics

Lets start our statistical learning now. It is right time to undergo the course on
. This
course would make use of Excel to teach you all the basics of descriptive statistics. If
you already know them, you can skip this step.
Assignment: The assignments after each chapter in the Udacity course should be
done on SAS. Your knowledge from the course on Base SAS should be sufficient to
complete them. If you need specific help, use SAS documentation.
Step 5: Learn Inferential statistics
teach you all the basics of inferentialstatistics, hypothesis testing, t-test, ANOVA. If you
already know them, you can skip this step.
Assignment: The assignments after each chapter in the Udacity course should be
done on Excel for now. We will re-visit these once we have done the next steps with
the course from SAS.
Step 6: Learning ANOVA, Linear and Logistic Regression on SAS

Training from sas.com
Assignment: Availablein the course and from Udacity course
If you are working on SAS University edition, then you will need to skip step 7, 9 and 10.
SAS University edition has its own limitations and can not run decision trees and time
series modeling.
Step 7: Learning Decision trees

Now that you know a few algorithms, let us look at decision trees. Here are 2 articles
explaining the working of decision trees:
1.
2.
Step 8: Clustering and Segmentation
Step 9: Learning Time Series forecasting
Step 10: Learn IML

Here are a series of articles, which can help you get up to speed with IML:
1.
2.
3.
Step 11: LearnSAS Macros

Beloware the series of articles, which can help to understand SAS Macro:
1.
2.
3.
Other Useful resources for SAS:

1.
2.
path
3. examples on specific
topics on SAS.
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Hi Sir,
This is an excellent materials for who want to learn SAS and Analytics.
Thank you so much for the nice articulated information.
i like so much your articles.
Regards,
Anil
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Thank you Just what I was looking for!
pratik says:
JANUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:13 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LE ARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE -BUSINESS-
Hi,
I did my base sas certification and am preparing for the advanced sas.I current
work as a data analyst but want to move to a business analytics role.What could
possibly be the right order for doing SAS certification for predictive modelling and
Business Analytics.Would Jigsaw academy be a good option for one living in delhi
(have heard that in bangalore they take on classroom batches also ).
Ayodele Ogunnubi says:

JANUARY 28, 2015 AT 4:50 PM (HTTPS://WWW. ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINESS-
Hi, thank you for the good work. I have gained a lot from some of the ideas you
have shared on this platform. I recently downloaded the SAS University edition
that was posted on this platform recently. I am just wondering if you have SAS
Templates Code that would also help. Many thanks
srikar says:
JANUARY 29, 2015 AT 2:51 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINESS-
Great Job!!!
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for this treasure of resource.
Srikar
ankit sharma says:

MARCH 4, 2015 AT 2:09 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LE ARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINE SS-
Can someone kindly tell me that after which step we would have covered SAS
base certification course ?
what i mean is after which step we can try sas base certification?
thanks
shyamunnisha says:
MARCH 10, 2015 AT 11:52 AM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LE ARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE -BUSINESS-
Really great learning..superb!!!
Aditya Singh says:

MARCH 11, 2015 AT 4:04 AM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINESS-
Sir,
Request you to provide links to download VMWare Player and Oracle Virtual Box.
Thanks in advance.
Pradeep says:
MARCH 30, 2015 AT 10:50 AM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINESS-
Good work Brother Thanks a lot!!
jayashree says:
APRIL 12, 2015 AT 6:29 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIE NCE-BUSINESS-
Great Article..
sudheer says:
MAY 6, 2015 AT 5:15 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINE SS-
hi,
grate article. planning to learn . would you provide any online training please send
me mail
sudheer
Pradeep says:
MAY 22, 2015 AT 12:09 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINESS-
Hello Sir,
Thank you so much. Very useful and informative It inspires to learn and Finish
this as soon as possible
Vikram Bhat says:

JUNE 30, 2015 AT 6:31 AM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LE ARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINE SS-
What to do if we dont have 64 Bit Machine to install University version of SAS. Can
anyone please guide me??
Ashish Tiwari says:

JULY 11, 2016 AT 2:32 PM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/LEARNING-PATHS-DATA-SCIENCE-BUSINESS-
Hi All,
On behalf of Analytics Vidhya, I would like to answer to few of question asked on

the forum:
@Ankit Sharma For taking Base SAS Certification examinations, you need to be
very clear with below topics:
Accessing Data
Creating Data Structures
Managing Data
Generating Reports
Handling Errors
@Aditya Singh Here is the link for the VMWare:

https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_wor
(https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_wo
I hope my reply would reach out to you and may help.
Regards,
Ashish
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SAS Learning Path | Business Analyst in SAS | Learn SAS Programming Page 1 of 18

SAS Learning path and resources Business

Step 0: Why learn SAS?

Step 1: Downloading and Installing SAS

SAS university edition currently works only on 64 bit machines

Step 2: Learning Base SAS

Step 3: Learning SQL

Step 4: Learn Descriptive Statistics

Step 5: Learn Inferential statistics

Step 6: Learning ANOVA, Linear and Logistic Regression on SAS

Assignment: Availablein the course and from Udacity course

Step 7: Learning Decision trees

Step 8: Clustering and Segmentation

Step 9: Learning Time Series forecasting

Step 10: Learn IML

Step 11: LearnSAS Macros

Other Useful resources for SAS:

Thank you so much for the nice articulated information.

i like so much your articles.

Thank you Just what I was looking for!

Ayodele Ogunnubi says:

ankit sharma says:

Really great learning..superb!!!

Aditya Singh says:

Good work Brother Thanks a lot!!

Vikram Bhat says:

Ashish Tiwari says:

On behalf of Analytics Vidhya, I would like to answer to few of question asked on

@Aditya Singh Here is the link for the VMWare:

I hope my reply would reach out to you and may help.

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