New landing page, column annotations, + 5 new steps | SAS Viya October 2024 Release

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THE RUNDOWN

In this month’s edition of our SAS^® Viya^® email series, you’ll find a new landing page in the SAS Viya platform, five new steps in SAS Studio and column annotations in SAS Information Catalog. Plus, in David’s Tip of the Month, learn how to use the SAS extension for Visual Studio Code to connect to SAS Viya.

This one’s not a new feature but is a new productivity study you’ll want to check out. The Futurum Group revealed that SAS Viya helped data and AI teams execute the life cycle of collecting data, building models and deploying decisions 4.6x faster than a leading commercial platform and non-commercial open source environment. If you thought you were more productive with SAS Viya, you were right!

NEW VIYA FEATURES

Check out these new features and what they mean for you.

Product: SAS Viya

New feature: New landing page

Description: A new landing page for SAS Viya enables you to get a quick intro to all the applications, customize the look and feel of the platform, and dive right into the most relevant tools for you. Learn more.

Product: SAS Studio

New feature: Five new steps

Description: Five new steps have been added: Recode Values Step(Transforming Data), Hierarchical Clustering Step and K-Means Clustering Step (Statistics), Aggregate Loss Models Step (Econometrics) and Standardize Data Step (Preparing Data). Learn more. 

Product: SAS Information Catalog

New feature: Column annotations

Description: You can now add notes to individual columns inside the Column Analysis tab of a table. Learn more. 

SPOTLIGHT USE CASE

Column annotations

Data owners usually have a lot of implicit knowledge about specific columns in a data set. The new annotations feature inside SAS Information Catalog enables you to add notes to a specific column that provides more in-depth information about the column. For example, you could give processing information, provide historical context around values or even dive into treatments for specific scenarios like outlier handling. Learn more.

TIP OF THE MONTH

Brought to you by David Weik

Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, SAS

The SAS extension for Visual Studio Code is a great way to connect to SAS Viya if you’re a heavy coder. You can find and install it by searching for SAS in the Extension Marketplace or by using this link.

Once installed, you will be asked to create a connection profile by selecting SAS Viya and entering the URL of your SAS Viya server. For everything else, you can just hit Enter to accept the defaults. You will be prompted to sign in, which opens your SAS Viya environment, and you need to copy the displayed code back into VS Code.

Now you are all set up to start using SAS content, the SAS library explorer and of course write SAS code with full syntax highlighting, autocompletion and annotations.