“SAS for Dummies”- Detailed Table of Contents

Part I: Welcome to SAS!

Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World SAS
    SAS–Isn’t That for Gurus?
    Data, Data Everywhere, Just Not Where I Need It!
    Summarizing and Reporting
    The Secret Sauce: Analytics
    Optimizing the Present
    Predicting the Future!
    Sharing the SAS Wealth
    What the IS Department Needs to Know
    Checking Out Real World Success Stories

Chapter 2: Connecting with SAS: Enterprise Guide
    Working with the Swiss Army Knife of SAS
    Accessing and Managing Data
    Visualizing Success
    Reporting to Satisfy the Crankiest of Managers

Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS
    Querying Your Way to Success
    Summarizing the Data
    Let’s Build a Forecast

Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information

Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!
    Excel, Access, and Text Files: Accessing the Data Hidden on Your PC
    OLE! More Ways to Access Data from Your PC
    Server-Based Data: Can You Super-Size That?

Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?!
    When Just Getting to Your Data Isn’t Enough
    Queries: Bringing Your Data Together and Making It Sing — or at Least Hum
    Sorting, Ranking, Transposing, and Other Data Contortions

Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Under a Minute!
    Discovering Your Reporting Options
    Knowing the Basics of Report Preparation
    Creating Data Listings for the Listless
    Compiling Data Summaries: Get to the Point!
    Working Cross-Tabs: Easier Than Crosswords!

Chapter 7: Making Graphs of Every Shape and Size!
    Graphing Basics
    Creating Graphs to Present Your Data
    Sweet Pie
    Behind Bars
    Scatter, Lines, and Other Interesting Designs

Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Analytic Intelligence

Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics
    Discovering the Types of Analytics
    Untangling the Past
    Optimizing the Present
    Forecasting the Future
    A Flexible Recipe for Analytics in the Real World
    Distribution Analysis- Describing Your Data
    Transforming Your Data for Further Use
    Basic Data Analysis via Correlation Techniques
    ANOVA and Regression: No PhD Required!

Chapter 9: More Analytics: Quality, Forecasting, and Mining
    Table Analysis
    Multivariate Analysis: Understanding Complex Relationships
    Staying Alive with Survival Analysis
    Quality Control: You Want Something That Works?
    Forecasting: Using the Crystal Ball!
    Data Mining: Precious Jewels in Your Data!

Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces

Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output
    Add Some Style to Your Report
    Customizing Styles–Just a Click Away
    Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, and Plain Old Text

Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate
    Saving Results
    Exporting Data
    Portals: Your Path to the Rest of the World
    Stored Processes: Dynamic Content for Everyone Else

Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Coworkers
    Who Invited All the Cubes?
    Pre-aggregated versus Source Data: Pros and Cons
    Show Me the Data!
    More Advanced Ways of Viewing the Data
    A Slice of Data for Further Analysis

Chapter 13: But I Love Excel: The Good News from SAS
    The Power of SAS from the Familiar World of Microsoft Office
    What Can I Do with This Thing?
    Access and Manage Data of Any Size from Almost Anywhere
    Ad-Hoc Analysis–Wheeeeeee!
    Stored Processes: Leaving Spreadsheet Hell
    Can I Still Use the Features of Microsoft Office?
    What about My Slideshow?
    Sharing Your Work with Others

Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered
    Web Report Studio: Even Management Can Understand It
    Accessing Reports Someone Made for You
    Self-Service Reporting
    How Come the Data Is So Easy to Understand from the Web?

Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock ’n’ Roll

Chapter 15: Setting It All Up
    Local PC Install of Enterprise Guide and PC SAS
    Server-Based SAS with Enterprise Guide
    Defining Data Sources Once and For All

Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast
    Data Warehousing: Do I Really Need to Think about This?
    The Value of Well Managed Data Marts
    Fundamental Principles of a Data Warehouse

Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and Enterprise Guide
    SAS Programming and Enterprise Guide
    What about the Good Old Days?
    Some Basics
    Some More Basics
    An Example: Save Time and Do Something Previously Impossible

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 18: Ten Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators Only
    SAS 9 and Enterprise Guide
    Administration for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office and Web Report Studio
    How to Keep Secrets

Chapter 20: Ten Resources for Extra Info
    Data Access and Management
    Analytics
    Data Warehousing
    Administration

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