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Launch Your Career with a SAS® Credential. Master the skills required for the SAS® Visual Business Analyst Certification
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How to explore data using SAS Visual Analytics
How to create interactive reports using SAS Visual Analytics
How to prepare data using SAS Data Studio
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Using SAS Visual Analytics, you will learn to access and manipulate data, analyze data with a variety of interactive reports and graphics, and design and share dashboards to visualize your data. SAS Visual Analytics is a useful skill in a variety of careers, including business analyst, researcher, statistician, or data scientist.
The Macquarie Business School at Macquarie University is proud to partner with global analytics leader SAS in offering SAS Certification as part of their Global MBA program. The Global MBA SAS Partnership includes the opportunity for professionals certified through the SAS Certified Specialist: Visual Business Analyst program to gain credit when studying for Macquarie University’s Global MBA through the Generate Insights unit. Find out more about the benefits of the partnership here!
Applied Learning Project
Through the SAS Visual Business Analytics Professional Certificate, you get access to hands-on projects that are built into the course work of each course. Examples of projects include Visual Analytics Methodology, Designing Reports with SAS Visual Analytics Review, Restructuring Data for Forecasting Review, and Using Parameters to Create Advanced Reports Review.
In this course, you learn more about SAS Visual Analytics and the SAS Viya platform, how to access and investigate data in SAS Visual Analytics, and how to prepare data for analysis using SAS Data Studio.
In this course, you learn how to use SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya to modify data for analysis, perform data discovery and analysis, and create interactive reports.
In this course, you learn about the data structure needed for geographic mapping and forecasting, how to use SAS Data Studio to restructure data for analysis, and how to create geo maps and forecasts in SAS Visual Analytics.
To describe the data structure needed for network analysis, path analysis, and text analytics.
How to create network analysis to analyze relationship between entities in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create path analysis to understand frequent paths in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create text analytics to analyze unstructured text in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create advanced data items (like calculated items and aggregated measures) in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create advanced static and interactive filters and advanced ranks in SAS Visual Analytics.
How to create and apply parameters to make reports more dynamic in SAS Visual Analytics.
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It takes approximately 7 weeks to complete this professional certificate.
No SAS experience or programming experience is required, although you should have basic computer experience.
Yes, the courses should be taken in this order:
Getting Stared with SAS Visual Analytics
Data Analysis and Reporting in SAS Visual Analytics
Using Data for Geographic Mapping and Forecasting in SAS Visual Analytics
Performing Network, Path, and Text Analyses in SAS Visual Analytics
Creating Advanced Reports with SAS Visual Analytics
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You will be able to access and manipulate data, analyze data with a variety of interactive reports and graphics, and design and share dashboards to visualize your data. You will also have completed suggested training for the SAS Certified Specialist: Visual Business Analytics certification.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Certificate, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Certificate. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
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