Programming Consultant Virtual Experience

What is this?

Welcome to the SAS Programming Consultant Virtual Experience.

Some people see data as facts and figures. But it’s more than that. As the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS transforms data into insights that give organisations a fresh perspective on their business. They can identify what’s working. Fix what isn’t. And discover new opportunities.

SAS Technical Consultants provide consulting and implementation services including requirements gathering, analysis, solution development, knowledge transfer and project closeout both off and on customer site. 

Why should you do this?

This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 4 to 5 hours to complete.

This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.

When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.

Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as a programming consultant at SAS. Apply your programming knowledge to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.

What skills will I gain?

  Reviewing the customer requirements

  Exploring and preparing the data source

  Building a report

  Understand the differences between using point and click and SAS code

What you will do?

Module 1: Access and explore the data sources (1 - 1.5 hours)

The data sources for our report must first be loaded into memory which has already been done.  To use these files in SAS Studio we need to define a SAS library.  We will then run the data sources through a simple task to see what information they contain.

Module 2: Prepare the data  (30 minutes - 1 hour)

We have investigated the data sources and found that we will need to join 2 tables to get all of the information we need together in the one data set. We can also filter the rows and subset the columns before doing our reports on that result.  

Module 3: Analyse the Data and Create Reports (1 - 2 hours)

We are now at the analysis and reporting phase. We need to create a report that uses summary tables as well as graphs to highlight the highest selling product lines from 2010-2011.

Module 4: Answering business questions from our results  (30 minutes - 1 hour)

Our final job is to answer some questions based on the results we created in the previous module. These are some of the questions the management team would like answered as an initial step in our order analysis. They will then drill deeper if required.

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