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SAS Visual Analytics (VA) is web-based environment that supports several applications. It allows you to create beautiful, interactive dashboards or reports that are immediately available on the web or a mobile device. 

Benefits of Using SAS Visual Analytics:
Using SAS Visual Analytics, users can enhance the analytic power of their data, explore new data sources, investigate them, and create visualizations to uncover relevant patterns. Users can then easily share those visualizations in reports. In traditional reporting, the resulting output is well-defined up-front. That is, you know what you are looking at and what you need to convey. However, data discovery invites you to plumb the data, its characteristics, and its relationships. Then, when useful visualizations are created, you can incorporate those visualizations into reports that are available on a mobile device or in the viewer. 

SAS Visual Analytics provides users with the following benefits:

• enables users to apply the power of SAS analytics to massive amounts of data
• empowers users to visually explore data, based on any variety of measures, at amazingly fast speeds
• enables users to share insights with anyone, anywhere, via the web or a mobile device

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How to land a job as a SAS professional

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Charu Shankar|

Would you like to know the secret of how I landed my job at SAS? Since I’m asked this question so frequently, I thought it might be useful to share my tips.

1.       Know yourself

Are you a people person? Or are you an analytical person who enjoys the rush you get while working with logic and numbers? Or are you a combination person? What do you like to do? What are your skills? Take the time to understand your likes. You really need to know yourself to start positioning your resume in the right manner for a SAS job. I suggest taking a personality test. Here are a few you could try:

• Myers Briggs
• 3SmartCubes
• Kiplinger

My tip - If you have time for only one, Myers Briggs is typically considered a reliable indicator of personality type. If you come out strongly analytic, then you are a shoe in for many SAS jobs that require analytical skills. I tossed in a couple of other tests that are more detailed analytical type tests.

2.       Know your industry

Have you taken the time to understand industry trends before trying to find a job using SAS? Research what areas of industry are hot and what companies are hiring. Here are some companies to research:

• IBT1000: Top 10 Industries with the World’s Fastest Growing Companies
• Top 500 Companies listed by Fortune 500 in 2011

My tip - Look to the health industry which is always looking to recruit SAS professionals.

3.       Network

Take every opportunity to meet other SAS users.  Speaking from experience, user group committees are usually short-staffed and love to get an extra hand. Whether you are skilled at organizing, presenting, compiling evaluations, or putting up content on the user group website there’s usually a skill waiting to be used at your local user group.

My tip - Join your local SAS user group. Not only will networking help the community, but it also helps you figure out where the jobs are in your research for your dream technology job.

4.       Make the fit

Understand the organization you are seeking. As an example, my organization SAS is a socially responsible company that believes in giving back to the community. I loved volunteering before joining SAS and was able to continue after starting the job. Thanks to SAS, I was able to teach yoga (check out this video) to these junior kindergarten kids at a neighborhood school. Make an effort to understand the vision and mission of an organization and see if what you’re doing in your life lines up with what the company stands for.

My tip - Read up and ask others working in the organization you have your eye on what it’s like to work there.

5.       Test your SAS skills

How good is your SAS knowledge and experience? You do need solid SAS skills to nail that SAS job. If you haven’t already, take a look at our top 10 course list to get a sense of what SAS users out there gravitate to the most. Take the SAS certification exam if you’re not sure. You’ll definitely be sure once you pass the exam.

My tip: Try the SAS practice exam for a self-test.

It’s easy to understand why so many people ask me about landing a SAS job. This recent article says SAS is the #1 skill to add to land a bigger paycheck.

At SAS Institute, we’re always happy to provide you guidance on what training you need to take. However, you do have to know yourself and your industry so that we can provide you the best options.  Good luck on your search.

Source: http://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2012/07/24/how-to-land-a-job-as-a-sas-professional/ 

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Mark Stevens|JULY 22, 2010

A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post, an interesting message popped up on Twitter from@annmariastat:

Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 months?

A fair question, and without trying to brag, I'd like to say that I can learn a lot in three months. It just takes some dedicated time and hard work. I spent six days in class (Programming 1 in March and Programming 2 in May), wrote lots of programs, and studied for ten hours/week for five weeks. It reminds me of my college days where terms were ten week quarters rather than the traditional collegiate semester.

So, might I have any advice for someone preparing for SAS Base Certification? I'm glad you asked:

1) Study within the exam objectives. The exam objectives define the content that will be tested. You may be a very good programmer and proficient in PROC SQL and macros, but if you can't read a raw text file or know the difference between a Do While and Do Until loop, you will struggle with the base certification exam. Focus your preparation on the exam objectives.

2) Understand SAS code. The base exam covers a lot of content, and you have to know it well to complete the exam within the 2-hour time limit. For me, this meant I had to write flash cards from the course content. Writing down the syntax helped a lot, and then I could discard topics that I mastered and focus on the topics that caused me grief.

3) Understand the concepts. Code is important, but so is knowing what occurs when a program runs. What happens at compile time? What happens at execution time? How is the PDV populated? You will see snippets of code during the exam and must understand what will happen when it runs.

4) Program, Program, Program! Learn by doing. Hopefully your day-job provides you opportunity to write programs. In addition, there are a ton of exercises in Prog 1 & 2 courses, try working through all of them without referring to the course notes. Another good learning technique is what my friend Elizabeth calls "what if...." programming: take a working program and change it. Re-order the statements. Use a Select Group in place of asubsetting if statement. Add a syntax error and see what happens in the log file. Mistakes and errors can be the best teacher.

5) Check the calendar. I decided to prepare for certification during both the NHL and NBA playoffs, and I missed many games while studying at the dining room table...poor me. Well, at least I finished in time for the FIFA World Cup.

So, do you have any advice for technical people who need to earn SAS Certification credentials? What worked for you during your preparations?

Source: http://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2010/07/22/zero-to-sas-certified-base-programmer-in-3-months-part-ii/