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Stephen McDaniel Chris Hemedinger Learn to: • Use SAS®9 statistical and analytical tools • Get various types of data into the software • Use Web tools to produce reports • Work with operational, financial, performance, and sales data SAS ® 2nd Edition Making Everything Easier!™ Open the book and find: • How SAS® turns data into useful information • A dozen types of graphs you can create • Why the IT department loves SAS® • Installation and setup advice • Where to find real-world SAS® success stories • How to create SAS® content to share with others • Online SAS® resources Stephen McDaniel is Principal and cofounder of Freakalytics™ LLC, which provides training and consulting for data presentation, visual data exploration, and dashboard development. Chris Hemedinger works in SAS R&D on the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, a popular user interface for SAS customers. $29.99 US / $35.99 CN / £21.99 UK ISBN 978-0-470-53968-2 Computers/Mathematical & Statistical Software Go to Dummies.com® for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop! Use SAS® to meet your data management, analysis, reporting, and forecasting needs Thousands of businesses use hundreds of SAS products to manage and deliver their data more effectively and create reports that mean something. Are you ready to join them? This book helps you use and understand basic SAS software, including SAS® Enterprise Guide®, SAS® Add-In for Microsoft® Office, and SAS® Web Report Studio. • Swiss army knife — learn how SAS® Enterprise Guide® facilitates both access to and protection of corporate data • They can do it themselves — see how your analysts can create their own reports with SAS tools • Data can’t hide — use infomaps and administered libraries to find data hiding in your PC • It’s mine — make your data mining more effective with SAS® Enterprise Miner™ • Show me the report — find out how to create reports in plain text, PDF, RTF, HTML, and SAS Report formats • Intelligent BI — explore the concepts of statistics and analytics as they relate to quality business intelligence • It’s everywhere — learn to use SAS from your desktop, on the Web, in Excel, and even in PowerPoint • A peek at programming — discover how to tweak SAS to fit your needs perfectly SAS ® McDaniel Hemedinger spine=.7680” 2nd Edition 2nd Edition Start with FREE Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheets include • Checklists • Charts • Common Instructions • And Other Good Stuff! Get Smart at Dummies.com Dummies.com makes your life easier with 1,000s of answers on everything from removing wallpaper to using the latest version of Windows. Check out our • Videos • Illustrated Articles • Step-by-Step Instructions Plus, each month you can win valuable prizes by entering our Dummies.com sweepstakes. * Want a weekly dose of Dummies? Sign up for Newsletters on • Digital Photography • Microsoft Windows & Office • Personal Finance & Investing • Health & Wellness • Computing, iPods & Cell Phones • eBay • Internet • Food, Home & Garden Find out “HOW” at Dummies.com *Sweepstakes not currently available in all countries; visit Dummies.com for official rules. Get More and Do More at Dummies.com® To access the Cheat Sheet created specifically for this book, go to www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/sas spine=.7680” SAS ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION 01_539682-ffirs.indd i 01_539682-ffirs.indd i 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM 01_539682-ffirs.indd ii 01_539682-ffirs.indd ii 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM by Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger SAS ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION 01_539682-ffirs.indd iii 01_539682-ffirs.indd iii 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM SAS® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http:// www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/ or its affi liates in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. SAS is a registered trademark of SAS Institute, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respec- tive owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2010922564 ISBN: 978-0-470-53968-2 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 01_539682-ffirs.indd iv 01_539682-ffirs.indd iv 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM About the Authors Stephen McDaniel has 20 years of experience as a teacher, a consultant, a leader, an innovator, and an author in the fi elds of visual analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, and data mining. Stephen is the author of Rapid Graphs with Tableau Software and is the cofounder of Freakalytics®, LLC. Freakalytics offers public training, on-site training, and expert consulting that delivers “Rapid Analytics to Explore, Understand, Communicate & Act.” Previously, Stephen was the senior manager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide development team and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Offi ce develop- ment team at SAS. Stephen has been a SAS user for more than 20 years and has experience with more than 50 organizations as a statistician, statistical programmer, product manager, and manager of data warehousing and busi- ness intelligence. You can reach him at www.Freakalytics.com. Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in the Research and Development division of SAS. Chris began his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, creating such hits as SAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment (remember OS/2?) and SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment. In 1997, he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easier to use for nonprogrammers, and that project evolved into the hugely popular SAS Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris has worked with ever since. Chris can be found performing entertaining SAS tricks at blogs.sas. com/sasdummy. 01_539682-ffirs.indd v 01_539682-ffirs.indd v 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM 01_539682-ffirs.indd vi 01_539682-ffirs.indd vi 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM Dedication I want to thank my wonderful wife and business partner, Eileen, for her patience, support, insights, and encouragement throughout the writing process!—Stephen McDaniel For my beautiful (and patient) wife, Gail, and our inquisitive three daughters: Maggie, Evelyn, and Gwen. Listen up, girls: Despite what you hear from me, it’s usually not polite to call somebody a “dummy.”—Chris Hemedinger 01_539682-ffirs.indd vii 01_539682-ffirs.indd vii 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM 01_539682-ffirs.indd viii 01_539682-ffirs.indd viii 3/2/10 10:49 PM 3/2/10 10:49 PM

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