“SAS for Dummies”- Detailed Table of Contents

Part I: Welcome to SAS!    

Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World SAS
      SAS–Isn’t That for Gurus?
      Data, Data Everywhere, Just Not Where I Need It!
      Summarizing and Reporting
      The Secret Sauce: Analytics
      Optimizing the Present
      Predicting the Future!
      Sharing the SAS Wealth
      What the IS Department Needs to Know
      Checking Out Real World Success Stories    

Chapter 2: Connecting with SAS: Enterprise Guide
      Working with the Swiss Army Knife of SAS
      Accessing and Managing Data
      Visualizing Success
      Reporting to Satisfy the Crankiest of Managers    

Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS
      Querying Your Way to Success
      Summarizing the Data
      Let’s Build a Forecast

Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information    

Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!                                                      
      Excel, Access, and Text Files: Accessing the Data Hidden on Your PC
      OLE! More Ways to Access Data from Your PC
      Server-Based Data: Can You Super-Size That?    

Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?!                                                        
      When Just Getting to Your Data Isn’t Enough
      Queries: Bringing Your Data Together and Making It Sing – or at Least Hum
      Sorting, Ranking, Transposing, and Other Data Contortions    

Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Under a Minute!                                                              
      Discovering Your Reporting Options
      Knowing the Basics of Report Preparation
      Creating Data Listings for the Listless
      Compiling Data Summaries: Get to the Point!
      Working Cross-Tabs: Easier Than Crosswords!    

Chapter 7: Making Graphs of Every Shape and Size!      
      Graphing Basics
      Creating Graphs to Present Your Data
      Sweet Pie
      Behind Bars
      Scatter, Lines, and Other Interesting Designs

Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Analytic Intelligence    

Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics
      Discovering the Types of Analytics
      Untangling the Past
      Optimizing the Present
      Forecasting the Future
      A Flexible Recipe for Analytics in the Real World
      Distribution Analysis- Describing Your Data
      Transforming Your Data for Further Use
      Basic Data Analysis via Correlation Techniques
      ANOVA and Regression: No PhD Required!    

Chapter 9: More Analytics: Quality, Forecasting, and Mining
      Table Analysis
      Multivariate Analysis: Understanding Complex Relationships
      Staying Alive with Survival Analysis
      Quality Control: You Want Something That Works?
      Forecasting: Using the Crystal Ball!
      Data Mining: Precious Jewels in Your Data!

Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces    

Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output  
      Add Some Style to Your Report
      Customizing Styles–Just a Click Away
      Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, and Plain Old Text    

Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate
      Saving Results
      Exporting Data
      Portals: Your Path to the Rest of the World
      Stored Processes: Dynamic Content for Everyone Else    

Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Coworkers                                                                  
      Who Invited All the Cubes?
      Pre-aggregated versus Source Data: Pros and Cons
      Show Me the Data!
      More Advanced Ways of Viewing the Data
      A Slice of Data for Further Analysis    

Chapter 13: But I Love Excel: The Good News from SAS
      The Power of SAS from the Familiar World of Microsoft Office
      What Can I Do with This Thing?
      Access and Manage Data of Any Size from Almost Anywhere
      Ad-Hoc Analysis–Wheeeeeee!
      Stored Processes: Leaving Spreadsheet Hell
      Can I Still Use the Features of Microsoft Office?
      What about My Slideshow?
      Sharing Your Work with Others    

Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered
      Web Report Studio: Even Management Can Understand It
      Accessing Reports Someone Made for You
      Self-Service Reporting
      How Come the Data Is So Easy to Understand from the Web?

Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock ’n’ Roll    

Chapter 15: Setting It All Up
      Local PC Install of Enterprise Guide and PC SAS
      Server-Based SAS with Enterprise Guide
      Defining Data Sources Once and For All    

Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast
      Data Warehousing: Do I Really Need to Think about This?
      The Value of Well Managed Data Marts
      Fundamental Principles of a Data Warehouse  

Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and Enterprise Guide
      SAS Programming and Enterprise Guide
      What about the Good Old Days?
      Some Basics
      Some More Basics
      An Example: Save Time and Do Something Previously Impossible    

Part VI: The Part of Tens    

Chapter 18: Ten Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips    

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators Only  
      SAS 9 and Enterprise Guide
      Administration for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office and Web Report Studio
      How to Keep Secrets    

Chapter 20: Ten Resources for Extra Info
      Data Access and Management
      Analytics
      Data Warehousing
      Administration