Gain Powerful Insights with SAS Viya! Whether you are an executive, departmental decision maker, or analyst, the need to leverage data and analytical techniques in order make critical business decisions is now crucial to every part of an organization. Smart Data Discovery with SAS Viya: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex questions using your data. The book highlights key components of a smart data discovery process utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, powerful capabilities from SAS Viya, and finally brings it all together using real examples and applications. With its step-by-step approach and integrated examples, the book provides a relevant and practical guide to insight discovery that goes beyond traditional charts and graphs. By showcasing the powerful visual modeling capabilities of SAS Viya, it also opens up the world of advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to a much broader set of audiences.

Gain Powerful Insights with SAS Viya! Whether you are an executive, departmental decision maker, or analyst, the need to leverage data and analytical techniques in order make critical business decisions is now crucial to every part of an organization. Smart Data Discovery with SAS Viya: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex questions using your data. The book highlights key components of a smart data discovery process utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, powerful capabilities from SAS Viya, and finally brings it all together using real examples and applications. With its step-by-step approach and integrated examples, the book provides a relevant and practical guide to insight discovery that goes beyond traditional charts and graphs. By showcasing the powerful visual modeling capabilities of SAS Viya, it also opens up the world of advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to a much broader set of audiences.

Data visualization enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually so that they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. SAS offers several solutions for visualizing your data, many of which are powered by SAS Viya. This book includes four visualization solutions powered by SAS Viya: SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Visual Statistics, SAS Visual Text Analytics, and SAS Visual Investigator. SAS visualization software is designed for anyone in your organization who wants to use and derive insights from data-from influencers, decision makers, and analysts to statisticians and data scientists. Also available as a free e-book from sas.com/books.

This text highlights the difference between analytics and data science, using predictive analytic techniques to analyze different historical data, including aviation data and concrete data, interpreting the predictive models, and highlighting the steps to deploy the models and the steps ahead. The book combines the conceptual perspective and a hands-on approach to predictive analytics using SAS VIYA, an analytic and data management platform. The authors use SAS VIYA to focus on analytics to solve problems, highlight how analytics is applied in the airline and business environment, and compare several different modeling techniques. They decipher complex algorithms to demonstrate how they can be applied and explained within improving decisions.

Master machine learning with SAS Viya! Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open-source code? Machine Learning with SAS Viya has you covered – step-by-step instructions are given on how to use SAS Model Manager tools with open source. SAS Model Studio features are highlighted to show how to carry out machine learning in SAS Viya. Demonstrations, practice tasks, and quizzes are included to help sharpen your skills. In this book, you will learn about: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning Data preparation and dealing with missing and unstructured data Model building and selection Improving and optimizing models Model deployment and monitoring performance

An evidence-based organizational framework for exceptional analytics team results The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit provides managers with a practical manual for integrating data management and analytic technologies into their organization. Author Gregory Nelson has encountered hundreds of unique perspectives on analytics optimization from across industries; over the years, successful strategies have proven to share certain practices, skillsets, expertise, and structural traits. In this book, he details the concepts, people and processes that contribute to exemplary results, and shares an organizational framework for analytics team functions and roles. By merging analytic culture with data and technology strategies, this framework creates understanding for analytics leaders and a toolbox for practitioners. Focused on team effectiveness and the design thinking surrounding product creation, the framework is illustrated by real-world case studies to show how effective analytics team leadership works on the ground. Tools and templates include best practices for process improvement, workforce enablement, and leadership support, while guidance includes both conceptual discussion of the analytics life cycle and detailed process descriptions. Readers will be equipped to: Master fundamental concepts and practices of the analytics life cycle Understand the knowledge domains and best practices for each stage Delve into the details of analytical team processes and process optimization Utilize a robust toolkit designed to support analytic team effectiveness The analytics life cycle includes a diverse set of considerations involving the people, processes, culture, data, and technology, and managers needing stellar analytics performance must understand their unique role in the process of winnowing the big picture down to meaningful action. The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit provides expert perspective and much-needed insight to managers, while providing practitioners with a new set of tools for optimizing results.

Boost your understanding of data science techniques to solve real-world problems Data science is an exciting, interdisciplinary field that extracts insights from data to solve business problems. This book introduces common data science techniques and methods and shows you how to apply them in real-world case studies. From data preparation and exploration to model assessment and deployment, this book describes every stage of the analytics life cycle, including a comprehensive overview of unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques. The book guides you through the necessary steps to pick the best techniques and models and then implement those models to successfully address the original business need. No software is shown in the book, and mathematical details are kept to a minimum. This allows you to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of data science, no matter what background or experience level you have.