Raise your hand!

Taking it on Friday... any last minute tips, tricks, hacks, cracks?

8/5/2014 2:50:38 AM

learn R and R-py

8/6/2014 1:22:33 AM

Base is pretty easy, just take the online practice questions and if you really understand the material you won't have any issues.

8/6/2014 12:22:38 PM

^,^^ thanks

I am learning R as well, from Johns Hopkins' course on Coursera. Don't know what R-py is... time to look it up!

8/6/2014 5:41:43 PM

base sas exam is really easy.


^^^ Don't you work at SAS?

8/6/2014 7:59:20 PM

Did you pass?

8/8/2014 4:59:49 PM

Yup... and a bunch of us left for New Orleans couple of hours after it. Just got back from a crazy Friday night in NO...

Gonna take the Statistical Business Analyst certification next week Friday (that's a piece of cake, at least from the sample questions)

Thanks for asking!

8/9/2014 5:52:39 PM

They're all a piece of cake.

I've got 4 of the certifications.

8/9/2014 6:10:38 PM

^ Hey you did the MSA from NCSU, right? I am doing the MSA at LSU.

So which certs do you have? I am guessing:

Base Prog
Advanced Prog
Stat Bus Mod
Predictive Mod

8/10/2014 9:02:31 PM

Right on both accounts. the only one that gave me a little run for my money was Stat Bus Mod, but that's cause they asked some syntax questions

8/10/2014 9:38:18 PM

The only cert that was helpful during the job search was the base cert and even then it made no difference in the job I got or my current job. I could see them meaning more if you wanted to work at SAS but most employers only care about actual experience and some certs without real world experience will only get you so far. But by all means get whatever you can if the school is footing the bill but I wouldn't lose sleep over it either. I'm glad I didn't because I haven't used SAS in about two years and it will probably stay that way. Learning R would be helpful though.

8/11/2014 7:53:56 AM

^Agreed for the most part. Though, it's not uncommon for people in these classes to become SAS programmers.

8/13/2014 2:57:05 PM

Sure but I would say that a company wouldn't really put that much value in the advanced cert vs the base with no real world experience in SAS programming. That said, I still would get anything you can because it sure won't hurt and if it is free why not?

8/13/2014 8:29:38 PM

Does anyone know about a free online training course or guide for getting started with SAS for analytics? I've been doing Excel for regressions/ANOVA and want to learn SAS' interface & syntax.

8/15/2014 10:02:06 AM

http://support.sas.com

8/15/2014 1:34:24 PM

^^I took a wake tech class about 6 years ago for $55. It was helpful.

8/15/2014 5:08:33 PM

If you don't have a license allowing you to actually use SAS it doesn't matter if you take an online course you won't really learn it. It really takes coding and solving problems to really get it (like any other language).

8/15/2014 7:43:24 PM

Aced the Statistical Business Analyst exam

Specter, I will hook you up with a link a bit later.

8/15/2014 10:13:02 PM

SAS Programming 1: Essentials, 24.0 hrs e-Learning Course (24 hrs of video, 1 year access free)
https://support.sas.com/edu/schedules.html?ctry=us&id=277

Statistics 1: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression, and Logistic Regression, 24.0 hrs e-Learning course (24 hrs of video, 1 year access free)
https://support.sas.com/edu/schedules.html?ctry=us&id=1320
(this covers in 24 hrs what was covered yesterday in <6 hrs)

To see all free and paid courses, click below, and then "Expand All"
https://support.sas.com/edu/elearning.html?ctry=us&productType=library

Short lectures on topics not covered by SAS courses, to extend learning
https://support.sas.com/edu/elearning.html?ctry=us&productType=electure


Free version of SAS
http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/university-edition.html


[Edited on August 17, 2014 at 1:26 AM. Reason : ]

8/17/2014 1:25:40 AM

thanks dude!

8/20/2014 9:31:45 AM

you are welcome!

8/21/2014 12:36:08 AM