SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 04 Preparing Data
28mBeginner2020-01-06
Authors
SAS Institute
Business analytics software and services
Course details
Want to get ahead in a crowded job market? Get certified with SAS. This course is part of a series by the SAS Institute, designed to prepare you for the SAS 9.4 certification. Preparing your data is one of the most time-consuming steps in your analysis. The following videos introduce you to methods that you can use to prepare your data for review in SAS. Instructor Stacey Syphus explains how to use DATA steps to read and filter data, create new columns, and use conditional processing to apply sophisticated logic to your SAS operations.
Skills covered
SASStatisticsData EngineeringCert PrepData Science
Concepts
Introduction
- sort and validate your data
Reading and Filtering Data
- using the data step to create a sas data set
- data step processing
- demo- working with the data step
Computing New Columns
- demo- using expressions to create new columns
- using numeric functions to create columns
- demo- using character functions
- demo- using date functions
Conditional Processing
- demo- conditional processing with if-then
- conditional processing with if-then_else
- creating character columns with the length statement
- processing multiple statements with if-then_do
- demo- processing multiple statements with if-then_do