Best way to start learning SAS for analytics role

[radox3]

I'm working to self-study SAS over the next few weeks to prepare for am entry-level job in operations/analytics for an airline company, and began with SAS's 30-day free learning platform, but the courses have a lot of range in topic and tools (it doesn't help that I'm not familiar with the licensed names, like OLAP and Viya). So I wanted to ask if any SAS pros know where best I should start given my role?

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:

  It would be useful if you could find out what type of SAS component, SAS application or SAS Solution is used at the new position. If you have a chance to ask your co-workers, they might be able to tell you whether they are using SAS and SAS/STAT, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner or SAS Viya, SAS Visual Analytics and/or SAS Visual Statistics. There are places to start with each of those different ways of using SAS. If you were going to work at a place that used SAS and SAS/STAT using programming methods, then I would recommend starting with Programming 1 and Statistics 1. On the other hand, if you were going to be primarily using SAS Enterprise Guide, then I would recommend Enterprise Guide 1: Querying and Reporting and then Enterprise Guide: ANOVA and Regression. For Enterprise Miner, I'd recommend Applied Analytics using SAS Enterprise Miner class. For SAS Viya, we have several beginning classes so it depends to a certain extent which SAS Viya applications you would be working with. At the very least for doing analytics with SAS Viya, I'd recommend the Machine Learning class and the Visual Statistics class.

  Without any direction as to what you'll be working with, Programming 1 and Statistics 1 might be your best choice. If the job description for your new position listed any SAS requirements, those might help you narrow down classes to concentrate on.

Cynthia