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This week, we focused specifically on reviewing some of the key procedures SAS offers for business statistics and data grouping such as Proc means, Proc freq, Prod univariate, Proc standardize, and Proc Fastclust, and of course, we continued our review of macros and passing variables through these functions to allow for faster variable analysis andContinue reading “Week 5 Blog: K Means Clusters”

This week, our focus was on building macros in SAS. I’m relatively familiar with building and structuring macros because of my prior experience with Excel VBA. Seeing how this same operation works in SAS was very enlightening – to me, it was very similar to building functions as opposed to building modules: building out theContinue reading “Week 4 Blog: Macros”

This week, we really dove into SAS and experimented with its different capabilities such as proc import, proc export, proc means, data steps, lib names, correlations, plots, and more. Our first assignment introduced the Lag function, which comes in handy when looking at past records with respect to the current record you are on. InContinue reading “Analytics Blog Week 2”

It’s only been a few days since I’ve started the analytics program at Wake, but we have reviewed several key concepts that are essential to understanding the data analysis process; While I have some experience in analytics I think the following process cannot be over-reviewed or over-emphasized: We reviewed the value of each step atContinue reading “My First Blog Post”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”