SAS® Visual Business Analytics Specialist

On this accelerated SAS® Visual Business Analytics Specialist course, you will learn to access and manipulate data, analyse 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.

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 just 2 days, you’ll learn how to explore data using SAS Visual Analytics . You’ll also learn how to:

• How to create interactive reports using SAS Visual Analytics
• How to prepare data using SAS Data Studio
• Add and manipulate data items within SAS Visual Analytics
• Analyse data with SAS Visual Analytics
• Design reports using SAS Visual Analytics

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the SAS exam, and achieve your SAS® Visual Business Analytics Specialist certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Business analyst, researcher, statistician, or data scientist.
• Organizations that are looking for big data analytics tools that can relate to and make sense of the most challenging and challenging Big Data queries.

Module 1: Data Sources and Data Items (20-25%)

Import data into SAS Visual Analytics

• Import local data
• Import server data (Oracle, Hadoop, SAS)
• Differentiate between local and server data imports

Examine, modify, and create data items

• Create and use parameterized data items
• Examine data item properties and measure details
• Change data item properties
• Create custom sorts
• Create distinct counts
• Create aggregated measures
• Create calculated items
• Create hierarchies
• Create custom categories

Select and work with data sources

• Work with multiple data sources
• Change data sources
• Refresh data sources

Module 2: Analyze Data (30-35%)

Create, modify, and interpret automatic chart objects for analysing data

• Identify the options available in an automatic chart

Create, modify, and interpret graph and table objects for analysing data

• Work with list table object
• Work with crosstab object
• Work with bar chart object
• Work with line chart object
• Work with scatter plot object
• Work with bubble plot object
• Work with histogram object
• Work with box plot object
• Work with heat map object
• Work with geo map object
• Work with treemap object
• Work with correlation matrix object
• Work with bubble change plot object
• Work with time series plot object

Create, modify, and interpret data analysis using report objects (i.e. adding fit lines, forecasting, network, path and text analysis objects, etc.)

• Add fit lines to scatter plot and heat map object
• Work with forecasting object
• Work with network analysis object
• Work with path analysis object
• Work with text analytics object

Interact with objects for analysing data

• Control appearance of objects (options, ranks, display rules, sorting, etc.)
• Use filters on data source and objects
• Export data and images from objects

Module 3: Build Reports (45-50%)

Create and modify list tables and crosstabs to build a report

• Create and modify list tables
• Create table display rules
• Add sparklines
• Create and modify crosstabs
• Manipulate columns
• Change options for tables and crosstabs
• Create hierarchies from a crosstab
• Create and modify display rules

Create and modify graphs to build a report

• Create and modify bar charts, targeted bar charts, waterfall charts
• Create and modify pie charts
• Create and modify line charts
• Create and modify scatter plots
• Create and modify time series plots
• Create and modify bubble plots
• Create and modify treemap
• Create and modify dual axis charts
• Create and modify key values
• Create and modify word cloud
• Create and modify butterfly chart
• Adjust options for graphs
• Create and modify geography maps
• Create and modify gauges

Create and modify controls, containers, and content to build a report

• Place report objects in containers
• Given a scenario, select the appropriate container (stacking, prompt, etc.)
• Add text report objects
• Include dynamic text in a text object
• Add image report objects
• Add controls to reports
• Given a scenario, apply the proper controls

Design a report using pages and layouts

• Layout the report and pages
• Move, duplicate, and change report objects
• Create and work with pages
• Modify report options

Add actions, filters, ranks and alerts to reports

• Add actions within page
• Add links to other reports
• Add external links
• Add filters and ranks to report objects
• Add page prompts and report prompts
• Add actions to reports
• Work with parameters

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered Certification Guarantee:

SAS® Visual Business Analytics Specialist A00-470 Exam

• Duration: 100 minutes
• Format: multiple-choice and short-answer questions
• Number of questions: 50-55 questions
• Passing score: Passing score is 67%
• Domains:
  • 20% - 25% – Data sources & Data items.
  • 30% - 35% – Analyze Data.
  • 45% - 50% – Build Reports.

Before attending this accelerated course, you should have:

• Experience with SAS Visual Analytics on either the SAS Viya platform or the SAS 9.4 platform is acceptable for your exam preparation

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
• You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
• Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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