Introductionto SASEnterprise Guide

SAS Academic Initiative
Introduction to SAS
Enterprise Guide for the
University of Otago
Melissa Cassar
Academic Program Manager
SAS Australia and New Zealand
Copyright © 2003, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

Agenda
 Introduction to the SAS Academic Initiative
 Introduction to Enterprise Guide
 Working with Data in a project
• Intro to Tabular Data
• Adding a local SAS table
• Accessing Remote Data
• Adding local data in other Software formats
• Importing Text Files
 Getting started with Tasks

• Intro to Task Dialogs
• Creating a listing report
• Creating a frequency report
• Creating a two-way frequency report
Agenda (cont..)
 Break – 15 minutes
 Creating Simple Queries
• Intro to the query task
• Setting a filter and selecting columns
• Creating new columns in a query
• Joining Tables
 Creating Summarised Output

• Generating and Exporting Summary Statistics
• Creating and applying custom formats
• Creating a Tabular Summary Report
• Creating a graph
 Close / Questions
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Introduction to Enterprise
Guide
Getting Started

Introducing SAS
Enterprise Guide

Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide

Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide
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SAS Enterprise Guide Interface
Customize Environment and Optimize Performance

Programming Interface
SAS Enterprise Guide Interface

SAS Enterprise Guide Structure
To begin work with SAS Enterprise Guide, you

1. create a project
2. add data to the project
3. run tasks against the data
Additionally, you can

4. customize results
5. automate the process

1. Projects
The Project window displays the active project
and associated data, code, notes, and results.
Project
Window

2. Data
SAS Enterprise Guide provides transparent access to
virtually any data anywhere.

3. Tasks
Tasks
• manage and analyze data
• generate formatted results.
SAS Enterprise Guide provides task dialogs to

• join tables
• filter and sort data
• create new columns
• create text-based and graphical reports
• perform sophisticated statistical analyses.

3. Tasks
Example of results from the One-Way Frequencies task:

3. Tasks
Example of results from the Summary Tables task:

3. Tasks
Task dialogs are designed with many similar features so that
you can learn to use them easily.
Task
Dialog

4. Customizing Results
Results produced by tasks are displayed in the Work Area.
Work
Area

4. Customizing Results
Results can be formatted as
 plain text
 RTF
 PDF
 HTML
You can present or distribute results by

 inserting results in Microsoft Word
 e-mailing or saving results as HTML files
and publishing them on the Web
 publishing the results to a channel

5. Automating a Process
You can create a process flow to script the execution of
projects or elements of projects.

Behind the Scenes
As you build tasks, SAS Enterprise Guide generates SAS code

Behind the Scenes
SAS Enterprise Guide can use the execution power of the server to access data and run SAS
processes, and then return the results to your client PC.
SAS
on Windows
SAS
Co d e on OS/390
lts
Resu
SAS
SAS Enterprise on UNIX
Guide
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Working with Data in a
project

Introduction to Tabular
Data
Demonstration

Introduction
 SAS Enterprise Guide can read data from a variety of
different formats and convert the data into SAS table
format.
SAS Tables Spreadsheets
.sas7bdat,
.xls, .wk?
.sd2, .sd7
Text Files Database Files

Delimited or Microsoft
fixed-width Access
text files tables

SAS Data Tables
A column’s type is either character or numeric. The type
plays a role in determining the length.
Numeric values are 8 bytes of

Character floating point storage:
values are Numeric
1 to 32,767 Currency
characters Date (days from 01JAN1960)
(bytes) long. Time (seconds from midnight)
SAS Data Tables
A format is used to control how values are displayed.
Formats do not affect how values are stored.
Format: DOLLAR10.
Format: MMDDYY8.
Stored value: 76806
Stored value: 15061

Formats
<$>format<w>.<d> Decimal
Type places
Name Required
Width
delimiter
Table Value Format Name Displayed Value

14024 COMMA14. 14,024
14024 DOLLAR14.2 $14,024.00
14024 WORDS30. fourteen thousand twenty-four
14024 Z14. 00000000014024
14024 EUROX12.2 E14.024,00
14024 BINARY20. 00000011011011001000

Date Formats
1jan1959 1jan1960 1jan1961 25may1998
-365 0 366 14024
MMDDYY10. Format
01/ 01/ 01/ 05/
01 01 01 25 /19
/19 /19 /19
5 9 6 0 6 1 9 8
Examples:
Table Value Format Name Displayed Value
14024 MMDDYY10. 05/25/1998
14024 DATE9. 25MAY1998
14024 WEEKDATE25. Monday, May 25, 1998
14024 FRADFDE9. 25mai1998
SAS Data Tables
 If a data value is not present for a column in a
particular row, it is considered missing.
• A character missing value is displayed as a blank.
• A numeric missing value is displayed as a period/dot.
. .
.

SAS Data Table Properties

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Adding a local SAS Table
Demonstration

Scenario
 Create a new project.
 Add a SAS table to the project.

Creating a Project and
Adding a SAS Table
 This demonstration illustrates how to
create a new project and how to add a
local SAS table to the project.

Accessing Remote Data
No Demonstration Available

Transparent Access to Remote Data
DB2 Oracle
Oracle
OS/390 sas
Mainframe
sas
UNIX
sas sas
Windows
Local User Server
The Server List window provides an organized view of all of
your files and data sources.
Server
List

Accessing Remote Files: Files Icon
The Files icon is used to access all types of data files on a
server.
Data files can be

added to a project
via the Files icon.

Accessing Remote Data: Libraries Icon
Libraries provide a further organizational system for data tables on a specific
server.
Libraries organize
similar data sources
within a server.

You can add data to a project directly from the Server List window
You can use

drag-and-drop
or double-click
to add a table
to a project.
After you add a data source to a project, the table automatically opens in the
Data Grid.

Adding Local Data in Other
Software Formats
Demonstration

Common Software Formats
Comma- and
dBASE files
tab-delimited
text files
Spreadsheets
(.xls, .wk?)
ODBC- HTML tables
compliant data
OLE DB
provider’s files Microsoft
Access tables

Software File Attributes Software file
contains
metadata.
Software file
contains no
metadata.

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Specifying Data Options
Select Tools  Options and select the Data and Query tab.

Adding an Excel Spreadsheet to
the Project
add a local Excel spreadsheet to the
project.

Importing Text Files
Demonstration

Import Data Task
 The Import Data task can be used to convert a
text or Excel file into a SAS data table.

Import Data Task
 To your computer, a text file is only strings of characters.
SAS Enterprise Guide requires that the data be arranged
into rows and columns (observations and variables).

Import Data Task
 The Import Data task enables you to tell SAS
Enterprise Guide
• where each column is located in the text file
• which columns to read in
• the name of each column
• if the first row contains column headings
• the type of data in each column
− character
− numeric (currency, date, time)
• how much storage space to allocate
• how to display the data values.

Import Data Task
 The Import Data task stores the data as a SAS
table

Adding Data from
a Fixed-width Text File
 This demonstration illustrates the
functionality available when you use the
Import Data task to read data.

Getting Started with Tasks

Introduction to Task
Dialogs
Demonstration

What Is a Task?
A task is a specific type of analysis or report that
you can perform against data in a project.
A task is typically referenced by its description:
Create Query
Summary Using Active Data
Statistics
Transpose
Mean and Range
Cluster Analysis Chart

Accessing Tasks
Tasks can be selected
through the Task List window.
The Task List window
displays tasks either grouped
by category or listed by
name.
Example categories include
 Add Items to Project
 Tools
 Data
 Descriptive
 ANOVA
 Capability Analysis
 Graph.
Associating a Task with Data
 Tasks are associated with a particular data source in
the project.
Highlight the
data source
in the Project
window and
double-click
on the task.

Working with Tasks
Each task dialog follows a similar format that includes a
tab to select the variables to analyze and other tabs to
set options.
Click
on the tab
to open it,
or use
the Next >
and < Back
buttons.

Working with Tasks
Use the Columns tab to assign variables to roles.
Variables
available
in this task
Special
Roles valid options
for this sometimes
task available

Working with Tasks
 Select from the available options to override the
defaults and to generate custom results.

Working with Tasks
 Use the Results tab to control which data results, if
any, are saved to a table.
Some tasks
allow you
to specify
the statistics
to include
in the output.

Working with Tasks
In the Project window, you can see the results of all
performed tasks.

Working with Tasks
Output summary tables are added to the project for use
in future analysis and reporting.

Working with Tasks
To modify an existing task, open the task from within the
Project window.

Creating a listing report
Demonstration

List Data Task
The List Data task displays rows of data in a table or
those rows returned by a query.
Group Display
rows. each
row.
Sum
columns.

Creating a Listing Report
use the List Data dialog to create a
listing report.

Creating a Frequency
Report
Demonstration

One-Way Frequencies

Generating a One-Way
Frequency Table

• create a one-way frequency table
• specify the statistics to include in the table
• save the results.

Creating a two-way
Frequency Report
Demonstration

Table Analysis: Two-Way Frequency Table

Generating a Two-way
Frequency Report
create a two-way frequency table.

15 minute break
Creating Simple Queries

Introduction to the Query
Task
Demonstration

Query Builder
The Query Builder is used to extract data from one or
more tables according to the criteria specified by the
user.

Query Builder Dialog
Options
List of
columns
available
Preview Preview query results.

code.

Query Builder: Filter Data Tab
The Filter Data tab is used to retrieve rows that meet
certain criteria, based on values of columns in the data
or columns calculated from the data.

Query Builder: Select and Sort Tab
The Select and Sort tab is used to select which columns
are included and what their roles are in the query.

Query Builder: Tables Tab
The Tables tab is used to join multiple tables based on a
relationship between columns.

Query Builder: Group Filters Tab
The Group Filters tab is commonly used to subset rows,
based on values of summarized columns calculated in the
query.

Query Builder: Advanced Tab
The Advanced tab is used to select the server on which the
query should execute.

Query Builder: Parameters Tab
The Parameters tab enables you to define a query that
returns different results based on values you provide at
runtime.

Setting a Filter and
Selecting Columns
Demonstration

Selecting Rows

Selecting Both Rows and Columns

Setting a Filter
The process of specifying which rows to retrieve in a query is
called setting a filter and is done in the Filter Data tab.
Drop the
column
in here.
Drag a
column
from
here.

Setting a Filter
When a column is dropped on the Filter Data tab,
the Edit Filter Condition dialog opens.
Choose the
type of
comparison.
Type the Compare

value or a column
expression. to distinct
values,
another
column,
or a defined
parameter.

Setting a Filter
Select Edit Filter... to open the Expression Builder and
customise the filter.
Use the
Expression
Builder
to create
your own
condition.
Expression Builder
Modify
the
existing
expression
or type
your own.

Expression Builder
Select
the type
of function.
Select
a specific
function.

Expression Builder
Choose
Boolean,
comparison,
and
mathematical
operators.
Select values
Select a to include
column in the
to view expression.
distinct
values.
Intermediate Results

Select and Sort Tab …create
Use the Select and Sort tab to... new
columns.
...group
data and
perform
summary …order
functions. rows.
…remove
duplicate
rows.
Selecting Columns
Modify a
Right-click on the table name column’s
to alphabetize the column list. attributes.
Uncheck a
column to Reorder
exclude it. columns.

Final Results: Selecting Both Rows and
Columns

Final Results: Selecting Both Rows and Columns

Filtering Data and Selecting Columns

Filtering Data and
Selecting Columns
set a filter and exclude columns in the
Query Builder task.

Creating New Columns in
a Query
Demonstration

Objectives

Review: Select and Sort Tab
Create
new
columns.

New Dialog: General Tab
Alias (name)
of the new column
Column’s role
in the query

New Dialog: Expression Tab
Text area to
build an
expression
Insert
functions and
data values.
Query Builder: Select and Sort Tab
Computed columns appear in the left pane and can be used
in a filter on both the Filter Data tab and the Group Filters
tab or as an input to another computed column.

Updating Computed Column
 If the data source referenced in the query changes, the
computed column is recalculated each time that the query is
executed.

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Creating a Column
in the Query Builder
use the Expression Builder to define a
column of data in the Query Builder
task.

Joining Tables
Demonstration

Joining Tables
Joining tables enables you to extract and process data from
more than one table at a time.

Joining Tables
Inner
Join
Matching
rows only

...



Tables Tab: Modify Join

Tables Tab: Modify Join

...
Query Builder: Selecting a Server

Query Builder: Results
From From
USCustomerDatabaseLong ItemsOrdered

Joining Tables
 The following demonstration illustrates
how to join multiple tables and store the
result in a data table.

Creating Summarised
Output

Generating and Exporting
Summary Statistics
Demonstration

Create a Summary Report

Summary Statistics Task
The Summary Statistics task provides data summarisation
tools.
Use this task

to compute
descriptive
statistics such
as the mean,
minimum,
or maximum
for numeric
variables.

Summary Statistics: Columns Tab
Generate descriptive
statistics for each
numeric variable in the list.
Specify variables
Select additional whose values
variables to include define subgroups.
in the output table.

Summary Statistics: Statistics Tab
Calculate common
descriptive statistics.
Specify
the number
of decimal
places
to display
in reports.
Calculate confidence
limits and t-statistics.

Summary Statistics: Plots Tab

Summary Statistics: Results Tab
Create a
summary table.
Create a
summary report.
Output selected
subgroup
crossings.

Exporting Results

Exporting Results

Summarizing Data
 This demonstration illustrates how to use

the Summary Statistics dialog to
• summarize data
• store the results in a summary table
• export the table to Microsoft Excel.

Creating a Tabular
Summary Report
Demonstration

Summary Tables Task
 The Summary Tables task displays descriptive statistics for
some or all of the columns in a table in tabular format.

Summary Tables: Columns Tab
Variables for which you
want to have statistics
calculated
Variables
whose values
make up the Generate a
rowcolumn separate summary
combinations table for each
distinct value.

Summary Tables: Table Tab
Drag a
listed
variable.
Drop the
variable into
the row or
column
area.

Table Tab: Selecting Statistics
Drag
statistics
from the
list.
Drop
statistics on
or next to
the default
statistic.

Table Tab: Calculating Row Totals
Drag
the variable Drop the
from the variable next
list. to the current
column.

Table Tab: Calculating Column Totals
Drop the
Drag variable
the ALL above or
variable below the
from the current
list. row.

Intermediate Results

Table Tab: Modifying the Display
Modify the labels,

fonts, and formats
in the table results.

Table Tab: Modifying the Display

Results

Creating Tabular Summary
Reports
use the Summary Tables dialog to
generate descriptive statistics and
display them in a tabular report.

Creating a Graph
Demonstration

Graphs Using SAS Enterprise Guide

Output Formats for Graphs
Graphics Interchange File (GIF)
Java Applet
ActiveX Control

Types of Graphs
 Bar  Ma
p
Pie
 Bub
ble
 Are
a
 Fin
anc
 Lin e
e
 Don
 Sc ut
Bar Chart: Chart Gallery Tab
The Bar Chart task creates vertical, horizontal, or
3D block charts that compare numeric values or statistics
between different values of a chart variable.
Select
the type
of chart.

Bar Chart: Columns Tab
Determines
the different
bars
in the chart.
Determines
the lengths Determines
of the bars. the number
of segments
in each bar.

Bar Chart: Appearance Tab
Customize
the appearance
of the chart.

Bar Chart: Advanced Tab
Specify how
to handle
missing
data and
zero values.
Select a statistic
whose value Select
determines the additional
length of each bar. statistics and
display options.

Default Output Format
ActiveX Control

Change the Default Output Format
Select Tools  Options  Results.
All graphs
produced
in the future
will have a
new default
output format.

Override the Default Output Format
 To change the default output format for a single
chart… …select a new
Graph image
format.
…right-click on the
task in the Project
window and select
Properties.
...
...
New Default Output Format
GIF File

Creating Bar Charts
use the Bar Chart dialog to create
graphs.

Building a Process Flow
Diagram
Demonstration

Process Flow Diagram
 Use a Process Flow Diagram (PFD) to designate a
subset of tasks to run as a group rather than
individually.


area
Tasks and code

grouped by server

Select
Add Task.
Select
the task.

Zoom and resize
Process Flow Diagram the diagram
for a better view.
Change
Run the or delete
process upon a task.
completion.

Running the Process Flow Diagram
 You can run a PFD from within a project or in batch
mode.

Building and Running
a Process Flow Diagram
use the Process Flow Builder to create
a Process Flow Diagram.

Next Steps…
To gain access to SAS Software contact:
 Helpdesk
• Email helpdesk@otago.ac.nz
• Call 0800 479 888
To learn more..
 SAS Education
• 2 Day course in Querying and Reporting using Enterprise Guide
3rd -4th June in the Wellington Office - Receive 60% Academic
Discount
 Free SAS Online Tutorials:

• http://www.sas.com/apps/elearning/elearning_courses.jsp
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 Getting started with Tasks

 Creating Summarised Output

Bridging the gap between Academia and Business

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A win win relationship

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