--For dummies

Includes index

Part 1: Welcome to SAS! -- Touring the wonderful world of SAS -- All shapes and sizes : your SAS is beautiful -- Six-minute abs: achieving miraculous results with SAS -- SAS programming for the faint of heart -- Part 2: Gathering data and presenting information -- Accessing data : oh, the choices! -- Managing data : I can do that? -- Show me a report in less than a minute -- Graphs : more value with SAS -- Part 3: Impressing your boss with your AI savvy -- A painless introduction to analytics -- Machine learning: making the leap from guesses to smart decisions -- Part 4: Enhancing and sharing your SAS masterpieces -- Leveraging work from SAS to those less fortunate -- Pedal to success on the analytics life cycle -- Supercharging Microsoft 365 with SAS -- Seeing is believing in SAS Visual Analytics -- Part 5: Getting SAS ready to rock and roll -- Setting up SAS -- Free and easy ways to learn and use SAS -- New world meets the old: programmers and the low-code movement -- Part 6: The part of tens --Ten SAS programming productivity tips -- Ten (or so) tips for SAS Administrators -- Ten (or more) web resources for extra information

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