topic Re: Anyone here actually use SAS Enterprise Miner? in SAS Data Science

Anyone here actually use SAS Enterprise Miner?

yunnun — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:16:58 GMT

This company I'm doing ML type work for dropped an ungodly amount of money on seat licenses for SAS Enterprise Miner.

Like many of you, I tend to code up solutions. This however, looks point and click, but is complicated enough that I'd need to spend some serious time learning how to use it.

For those of you who have already tried it, is it worth the investment time in terms of learning it? Or, as I suspect, does the point and click nature of it oversimplify?

Re: Anyone here actually use SAS Enterprise Miner?

PaigeMiller — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:23:47 GMT

I use Enterprise Miner in some situations. I find that Enterprise Miner is easier than writing code for the situation where you want to fit many different models to the same data (or same data with different cleaning/different missing value imputation applied), and then fit the models and compare the models on a number of different criteria.

Other than that, I write code.

Re: Anyone here actually use SAS Enterprise Miner?

sbxkoenk — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:29:45 GMT

Hello,

The standard stuff (flows) in Enterprise Miner is really easy to use, believe me!

You can probably find videos on https://video.sas.com/ .

What is more difficult in Enterprise Miner :

Writing your own custom nodes that behave exactly like the SAS-supplied nodes
Writing SAS code nodes using all of the macros and macro variables such that the code node adapts to any incoming data (generic code).
Dynamically generating score code in SAS code nodes.
Dynamically changing metadata

Enterprise Miner work is much quicker done than doing the same by programming !!
And the flows built are self-explanatory.

The successor to Enterprise Miner in SAS Viya is Model Studio (with a Visual Data Mining and Machine learning project).

BR, Koen