SAS Programming and Data Visualization Techniques: A Power User's Guide brings together a
wealth of ideas about strategic and tactical solutions to everyday situations experienced when
transferring extracting processing analyzing and reporting the valuable data you have at
your fingertips. Best you can achieve most of the solutions using the SAS components you
already license meaning that this book's insights can keep you from throwing money at problems
needlessly. Author Philip R. Holland advises a broad range of clients throughout Europe and the
United States as an independent consultant and founder of Holland Numerics Ltd a SAS technical
consultancy. In this book he explains techniques-through code samples and example-that will
enable you to increase your knowledge of all aspects of SAS programming improve your coding
productivity and interface SAS with other programs. He also provides an expert's overview of
Graph Templates which was recently moved into Base SAS. You will learn to create attractive
standardized reusable and platform-independent graphs-both statistical and non-statistical-to
help you and your business users explore visualize and capitalize on your company's data. In
addition you will find many examples and cases pertaining to healthcare finance retail and
other industries. Among other things SAS Programming and Data Visualization Techniques will
show you how to: Write efficient and reus able SAS code Combine look-up data sets with larger
data sets effectively Run R and Perl from SAS Run SAS programs from SAS Studio and Enterprise
Guide Output data into insightful valuable charts and graphs SAS Programming and Data
Visualization Techniques prepares you to make better use of your existing SAS components by
learning to use the newest features improve your coding efficiency help you develop
applications that are easier to maintain and make data analysis easier. In other words it
will save you time money and effort-and make you a more valuable member of the development
team. What You'll Learn How to write more efficient SAS code-either code that runs quicker
code that is easier to maintain or both How to do more with the SAS components you already
license How to take advantage of the newest features in SAS How to interface external
applications with SAS software How to create graphs using SAS ODS Graphics Who This Book Is For
SAS programmers wanting to improve their existing programming skills and programming managers
wanting to make better use of the SAS software they already license.
