Sas Enterprise Guide Software For Mac
Or some students use a Virtual Machine on their Mac and then install SAS. This option is preferred if you will not need SAS Enterprise Guide and you just use. Right-click on “Setup.exe” file in the SAS 9.4 Software Depot folder, and click.
SAS Institute offers hundreds of SAS products, and sometimes it’s difficult to decide which tool you should use for your work. Here is a partial list of SAS products you might encounter and who uses them for what purpose. As a SAS customer, you might use just one of these products or a few of them; if you’re really lucky, you might use them all.
SAS, or the SAS System
The SAS System is the original SAS product that customers have used in one form or another for more than 30 years, on systems ranging from big mainframes to laptops. It’s also known as Display Manager (the name of the windowing interface), or Base SAS, or just plain old SAS. The SAS System is primarily a tool for people comfortable with writing SAS programs. It contains the data processing and analytics engine that is at the core of most SAS products.
SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS Enterprise Guide provides a modern, easy-to-use interface to much of the power of SAS. SAS Enterprise Guide is used by SAS programmers, business analysts (who might or might not have programming skills), and statisticians. It’s a Microsoft Windows application that can connect to SAS; you can use it to drive the SAS analytics engine running on a mainframe, UNIX, or other remote machines as a server application. SAS Enterprise Guide is like a general store for SAS, where you can get a little bit of everything that SAS has to offer.
SAS Data Integration Studio
SAS Data Integration Studio is used to create and maintain data warehouses and data marts, which are specialized stores of data that have been prepared for effective reporting and analytics. Data experts, such as database administrators and IT specialists — people who support other folks who have to create reports — use SAS Data Integration Studio. Like SAS Enterprise Guide, this is a client application that runs on your desktop and provides an intuitive user interface, but it can connect to SAS and databases that run on machines all over your organization.
SAS Enterprise Miner
SAS Enterprise Miner is used for data mining, or investigating patterns in large amounts of data. Statisticians and professional modelers use SAS Enterprise Miner to segment data and create descriptive or predictive models. For example, a bank might use such a model to predict how likely you are to respond to a certain credit card offering. If your data profile is similar enough to others who have responded to similar offers, SAS Enterprise Miner would produce a model that indicates you’re worth sending the offer to. Hello, Platinum card!
SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
Some people spend most of their working days working with a Microsoft Office application such as Excel or PowerPoint. SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office lets you open SAS data sources and run SAS analyses without ever having to leave the comfy world of your spreadsheet or slideshow. SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office is used by business analysts who don’t really need to know anything about SAS programming but need the answers that SAS can provide.
SAS Web Report Studio
All business intelligence software vendors must have a Web-based reporting product, and SAS Web Report Studio fits that bill. SAS Web Report Studio allows you to create and distribute reports to anyone who needs them, all without leaving your Web browser.
SAS Forecast Studio
SAS Forecast Studio analyzes time-based data and forecasting future trends and events. It’s like a crystal ball, only better! SAS Forecast Studio is used by professional modelers or statisticians who understand concepts such as seasonality and intermittent demand models. However, no SAS programming is required!
JMP
JMP is a standalone, highly visual analytics product. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, or Linux-based computers. JMP is sometimes packaged with SAS and can work with other SAS products, but most often it’s used by researchers, engineers, and quality-control experts who want advanced analytics without a big software footprint.
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SAS Enterprise Miner – Free, on a Mac – Bet You Didn’t See That Coming … but how the hell do you get your data on it?
I wanted to test SAS Text Miner and was surprised to find the university did not have a license. No problem – and it really was, astoundingly, no problem – I had SAS On-Demand Enterprise Miner on a virtual machine using VMware.
I had installed it thinking – “This probably won’t work but what the hell.”
Here are all the links on this blog on getting SAS Enterprise Miner to work in all of its different flavors, because I am helpful like that.
Let me emphasize that you just better have the correct version of the Java Run Time Environment (jre), don’t say I didn’t warn you, and after you have it running whenever Java asks if you want to update, give it a resounding, “NO!”
So, surprisingly, running Windows 8.1 Pro on a 4GB virtual machine, it pops open no problem.
Okay, now how to find your data.
Turns out that even if you have SAS Enterprise Miner you need to use SAS Studio to upload your data. So, you go to SAS Studio, on the top left hand side of your screen, you see an UP arrow. Click on that arrow and you will be prompted to upload your data.
Not so fast …. where do you want to put your data?
You can only upload the data if you are a professor but since I am, that should be no problem. There is also a note on my login page that
The directory for all of your courses will be “courses/lalal123/” .
The LIBNAME for your courses should be
LIBNAME mydata “courses/lalal123” access = readonly ;
Except that it isn’t. In fact, my course directory is something like
“courses/lalal123/c_1223”
I found that out only by calling tech support a few months ago where someone told me that. Now, when I look on the left window pane I see several directories, most of which I created, and a few I did not. One of the latter is named my_content. If I click on the my_content directory I see two subdirectories
c_1223
and
c_7845
These are the directories for my two courses. How would you have known to look there if you didn’t call SAS tech support or read this blog? Damned if I know, but hey, you did read it, so good for you.
If you leave off the subdirectory … say you actually followed the instructions on your login page and in your start code had this:
LIBNAME mydata “courses/lalal123” access = readonly ;
run ;
Why, it would run without an error but it would show your directory is empty of data sets, which is kind of true because they are all in those subdirectories whose name you needed to find out.
So …. to recap
1. Download openjdk 7 for mac. Use SAS Studio to upload the data to the directory you are using for your SAS Enterprise Miner course. (Seems illogical but it works, so just go with it.)
2. In the start code for your SAS Enterprise Miner project, have the LIBNAME statement including the subdirectory which is under the my_content directory.
Once you know what to do, it runs fine. You can access your data, create a diagram, drag the desired nodes to it.
I’ve only been using this for testing purposes for use in a future course. For that it works fine. It is convenient to be able to pull it up on a virtual machine on my Mac. It is pretty slow but nowhere near as bad as the original version years ago, which was so slow as to be useless.
If you teach data mining – or want to – and your campus doesn’t have a SAS Enterprise Miner license, which I believe is equivalent to the cost of the provost’s first born and a kidney – you definitely want to check out SAS On-demand. It’s a little quirky, but so far, so good.
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