Healthcare Analytics Academy

Summary

You are a skilled SAS® programmer. You can code circles around those “newbies” who point and click in SAS® Enterprise Guide®. And yet… there are tasks you struggle with on a regular basis, such as “Is the name of that data set DRUG or DRUGS?” and “What intern wrote this code? It’s not formatted well at all and is hard to read.” In this presentation you learn how to program, yes program, more efficiently. You learn the benefits of autocomplete and inline help, as well as how to easily format the code that intern wrote that you inherited. In addition, you learn how to create a process flow of a program to identify any dead ends, i.e., data sets that get created but are not used in that program.

The course objectives include:

Once completed, students will be confident in how to be a more efficient SAS programmer utilizing the following aspects of moving to SAS Enterprise Guide (r):

• Creating, opening, and submitting programs
• Viewing the log and log summary
• Using autocomplete
• Using inline help
• Formatting programs
• Creating a process flow from a program

Course Details

This online course taught by Michelle Buchecker, Director of Technical Training at ThotWave and former Director at SAS Institute will get you understand what it's like to move to SAS Enterprise Guide.

Audience

This course is suitable for all programmers, analysts and statisticians regardless of experience level, and is a core course within Healthcare Analytics Academy technical training learning paths.

Prerequisites

None

Time to Complete

Approximately 40 minutes for the video. You can take this course from anywhere, on your own time, whenever it is convenient for you.

Payment

The course is free!

Certificate of Completion

Upon successful fulfillment of course requirements, you’ll be awarded a Certificate of Completion to add to your resume and portfolio.