Gain Powerful Insights with SAS Viya! Whether you are an executive, departmental decision maker, or analyst, the need to leverage data and analytical techniques in order make critical business decisions is now crucial to every part of an organization. Smart Data Discovery with SAS Viya: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex questions using your data. The book highlights key components of a smart data discovery process utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, powerful capabilities from SAS Viya, and finally brings it all together using real examples and applications. With its step-by-step approach and integrated examples, the book provides a relevant and practical guide to insight discovery that goes beyond traditional charts and graphs. By showcasing the powerful visual modeling capabilities of SAS Viya, it also opens up the world of advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to a much broader set of audiences.

Gain Powerful Insights with SAS Viya! Whether you are an executive, departmental decision maker, or analyst, the need to leverage data and analytical techniques in order make critical business decisions is now crucial to every part of an organization. Smart Data Discovery with SAS Viya: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex questions using your data. The book highlights key components of a smart data discovery process utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, powerful capabilities from SAS Viya, and finally brings it all together using real examples and applications. With its step-by-step approach and integrated examples, the book provides a relevant and practical guide to insight discovery that goes beyond traditional charts and graphs. By showcasing the powerful visual modeling capabilities of SAS Viya, it also opens up the world of advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to a much broader set of audiences.

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Master machine learning with SAS Viya! Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open-source code? Machine Learning with SAS Viya has you covered – step-by-step instructions are given on how to use SAS Model Manager tools with open source. SAS Model Studio features are highlighted to show how to carry out machine learning in SAS Viya. Demonstrations, practice tasks, and quizzes are included to help sharpen your skills. In this book, you will learn about: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning Data preparation and dealing with missing and unstructured data Model building and selection Improving and optimizing models Model deployment and monitoring performance

Discover your data and create reports in an elegant and intuitive web-based interface! SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Viya is a practical guide designed to get you started investigating your data and creating reports with SAS Visual Analytics, a web-based tool that enables you to explore huge volumes of data to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities. Learn how to report, share, and collaborate on insights from data with no SAS programming skills necessary – this book is accessible to all, including decision makers, business analysts, report creators, and citizen data scientists. SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Viya first introduces the basics needed to prepare and explore your data, make discoveries, and create a report in SAS Visual Analytics. Then, the second section describes more advanced topics, such as using automated explanation and creating advanced interactive reports with parameters. The book covers: Adding and manipulating data items within SAS Visual Analytics Analyzing data with SAS Visual Analytics Designing and sharing reports using SAS Visual Analytics Demonstrations and practices are included for you to follow to gain hands-on experience with SAS Visual Analytics, and the data sets used in the book are also provided to download.

Data visualization enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually so that they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. SAS offers several solutions for visualizing your data, many of which are powered by SAS Viya. This book includes four visualization solutions powered by SAS Viya: SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Visual Statistics, SAS Visual Text Analytics, and SAS Visual Investigator. SAS visualization software is designed for anyone in your organization who wants to use and derive insights from data-from influencers, decision makers, and analysts to statisticians and data scientists. Also available as a free e-book from sas.com/books.