Using SAS Enterprise Guide of my own

[alejandrogrrl]

Is there any way to access the libraries of the Data Science Academy from my own SAS Enterprise Guide? I rather not use SAS Studio.

I think its possible, I took statistics 1 course, and there was a Code for getting the Library needed for that course. 

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:

  Yes, you are right, Statistics 1, Programming 1, Macro Language 1, all "stand-alone" courses can be practiced with your own software. However, the SAS Academy for Data Science is using advanced software components. and for the SAS Academy for Data Science classes, you need to use the Virtual Lab. All the data and all the servers and metadata have already been defined to use the Virtual Lab locations. The software used is more advanced than just Base SAS, and SAS/STAT -- the SAS Academy uses Data Integration Studio, DataFlux Data Management Studio, SAS/Access for Hadoop, Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics (with and without SAS Viya), SAS/ETS, SAS/OR, Enterprise Miner, Text Miner and other software components. You would have to entirely replicate our classroom environment on YOUR company software -- including server names, tables names, users and groups, object metadata, libraries, and all the other items and projects that  are part of the 18 classes in the SAS Academy for Data Science.

Hope this helps explain why you have Virtual Lab access provided as part of the training.

Cynthia

[alejandrogrrl]

Thanks for the detailed answer. 

I was hoping to use my own software in order to use the knowledge acquired directly to my job. Also, I am used to keyboard shortcuts, in the studio, they are different and also even do not exist. I cannot even copy paste from Mac. 

[Kurt_Bremser]

What @Cynthia_sas means to say: only a small part of the work in the DSA is done with your usual programming tools like EG or SAS Studio. Most is done in other interfaces anyway. Even if you could connect your EG to it, you would not use it much.

[Cynthia_sas]

Thanks, @Kurt_Bremser for elaborating! Students might still use EG for some of the data prep and data review, but after that, you're right, most of the work in the Data Science courses is not done in EG. And since the Data Science courses assume that the student can already do basic data prep and data review with their existing SAS skills, the classes do not re-cover the basics.
Cynthia