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SAS Visual Analytics is a web-based tool that allows users to analyze large volumes of data for patterns and trends using a browser. It supports various data types, including numeric, character, date, datetime, and geography, and provides functionalities like List Tables and Crosstabs for data presentation. The document also discusses the differences between Calculated Items and Aggregated Measures, highlighting their complementary roles in data analysis.

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Module 5 (SAS)

SAS Visual Analytics is a web-based tool that allows users to analyze large volumes of data for patterns and trends using a browser. It supports various data types, including numeric, character, date, datetime, and geography, and provides functionalities like List Tables and Crosstabs for data presentation. The document also discusses the differences between Calculated Items and Aggregated Measures, highlighting their complementary roles in data analysis.

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Visual Analytics

Getting Started with SAS Visual Analytics: Exploring SAS VA concepts, Using Home page
Administrating the Environment and Managing Data: Exploring Data Builder, Exploring
Administrator. Demonstrations and Exercises.
What is SAS Visual Analytics?

• Visual Analytics is a web-based product.


• All you need is a browser and your web address for Visual Analytics
for the Visual Analytics server.
• Once you connect, you'll be accessing SAS's high performance
analytics.
• This allows for SAS to reach out to those very large volumes of data
and look for those patterns, trends, and opportunities for us to do a
deeper dive into the data.
• So we start with massive amounts of data. This is what we all
struggle with. We have so much data.
SAS Viya Features
SAS Cloud Analytics service (CAS)
SAS Viya Architecture
Data types in SAS Viya

• Numeric Data Type


• Description: Numeric data type is used for values that represent numbers.
• Usage: Useful in calculations, statistical analysis, and summarizing metrics.
• Examples: Metrics such as sales revenue, temperature readings, and counts.
• Character Data Type
• Description: Character data holds text or alphanumeric values.
• Usage: Ideal for categorical data, labels, and identifiers that don’t need mathematical
operations.
• Examples: Names, product categories, and descriptions.
• Date Data Type
• Description: Date data represents calendar-based values.
• Usage: Essential for time series analysis and trend tracking.
• Examples: Transaction dates, hire dates, or campaign launch dates.
• Datetime Data Type
• Description: Extends the Date data type by including time values.
• Usage: Useful for events that need precise timestamps, like event logs.
• Examples: Timestamped transactions, server log entries.
• Geography Data Type
• Description: Specialized type for geographic data, such as locations and coordinates.
• Usage: Enables geospatial analysis and mapping visualizations.
• Examples: Customer locations, store coordinates, regional sales.
List table vs. Cross Tabs
•List table
•Purpose: A List Table is designed to display raw data in a straightforward, row-
and-column format, similar to a spreadsheet.
•Usage: List Tables are ideal for showing detailed, individual records where
users want to view and potentially filter data line-by-line.
•Structure: It displays data from each column as individual cells, allowing for
easy viewing of each data point.
•Features:
•Users can add sorting, filtering, and custom formatting to rows and columns.
•It is particularly useful for viewing underlying data in reports or as part of a dashboard.
•Example Use Cases:
•A sales dataset where each row represents an individual transaction.
•Viewing customer records in a table format for data entry or verification.
List table
•Crosstabs
•Purpose: A Crosstab (short for cross-tabulation) aggregates data to show
relationships or comparisons between two or more categorical variables.
•Usage: Crosstabs are best for summarizing data, particularly to analyze and
compare metrics across different categories.
•Structure: Crosstabs are structured in a matrix format with one set of categories
on the rows and another set on the columns.
•Features:
•Provides summaries (such as counts, averages, or sums) of data within each row and column
intersection.
•Useful for identifying patterns or trends across categories.
•Allows aggregation options like totals and subtotals for deeper analysis.
•Example Use Cases:
•Analyzing sales data across different regions and product categories.
•Comparing employee headcounts by department and gender.
Crosstab
Difference Between Calculated Item and
Aggregated Measure

Aspect Calculated Item Aggregated Measure


Definition Custom data item created by Data item resulting from
performing calculations on aggregating values across multiple
individual rows. rows using statistical functions.
Level of Calculation Row level (per observation). Summary level (across multiple
observations).
Calculation Type Arithmetic or conditional formulas Aggregations like SUM, AVG,
applied per row. COUNT applied across rows.
Example Total_Cost = Price * Quantity SUM(Total_Cost) by Product_Type
Use Case Useful for metrics specific to each Ideal for providing summaries or
row or observation. high-level metrics.
Example Use Cases
•Calculated Item:
•Formula: Total_Cost = Price * Quantity
•Purpose: Calculates the cost for each individual transaction.
•Aggregated Measure:
•Formula: SUM(Total_Cost) by Product_Type
•Purpose: Summarizes total revenue by product category.

• These two types of data items in SAS Visual Analytics are complementary:
• Calculated Items enable row-level data calculations.
• Aggregated Measures provide high-level, summary insights across data.
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