Conference Seminars

Course 1: Programming Essentials Using SAS Enterprise Guide

Instructor: Kirk Lafler           Time: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

This course is designed to teach the basics of the SAS® System emphasizing the power of the graphical user interface (GUI) features found in SAS® Enterprise Guide (EG). Acquire a working knowledge of the GUI front-end interface along with the built-in wizards to access and perform a variety of input data types; data transformations; reporting and analytical tasks; subset, order, group, and summarize data; join (or merge) tables together; export results to Excel, Word, HTML, and PDF; and organize, view and manage projects, code, and its application-generated flow diagrams visually.

Attendees learn how to use EG’s GUI front-end interface to construct and execute programs using the SAS System; read and process text, ASCII, comma- and tab-delimited, and Excel data; format existing variables and create new calculated variables; create temporary and permanent SAS data sets; subset, order and group data; create detail, summary, tabular and statistical reports; perform conditional programming logic; manipulate numeric and character data; combine data using concatenation, match-merging (or joining) techniques; and manage SAS data sets and projects for added power and flexibility.

Intended Audience: SAS Programmers and End Users

Prerequisites: No previous SAS software experience required

Course Material: Course notes are provided

Course 2: PROC SQL Programming Techniques and ODS Statistical Graphics for SAS® Professionals

Instructor: Kirk Lafler           Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

As a new generation of SAS® professional emerges, current and prior generations of users have an extensive array of procedures, programming tools, approaches and techniques to choose from. This course explores two popular areas that are hot in the world of the professional SAS user. Topics include: 1.) PROC SQL programming techniques to retrieve, subset, order, and group data and results; construct logic scenarios with case expressions; and construct inner and outer join operations on two or more tables of data;  2.) ODS Statistical Graphics to create high-quality, production-ready output; and an introduction to the statistical graphic SGPLOT procedure, SGPANEL procedure, and the SGSCATTER procedure.

Intended Audience: All SAS users

Prerequisites: None

Course Material: Course notes are provided