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Data Analytics – Using the right tool for the job

Data Analytics – Using the right tool for the job. Dr. Kathleen Maitland kathleen.maitland@bcu.ac.uk Director SAS Student Academy. This workshop. Discover what statistical analysis do you perform? Discover what tools do you use? Discuss what is the right tool for the job

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Data Analytics – Using the right tool for the job

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  1. Data Analytics – Using the right tool for the job Dr. Kathleen Maitland kathleen.maitland@bcu.ac.uk Director SAS Student Academy

  2. This workshop • Discover what statistical analysis do you perform? • Discover what tools do you use? • Discuss what is the right tool for the job • Demo of data analytics tools • - SAS JMP (small data sets up to 1TB locally stored data) • - SAS University Edition (Big Data) • Questions

  3. What statistical analysis do you perform? • Descriptive analysis • Hypothesis testing • Regression • Correlation • Forecasting

  4. Barriers to learning • What is important? • The results of the data analytics • Learning a software tool

  5. Software – Robert Stine comment • • Must do statistics to learn statistics • • Modern computing provides • • New ways to look at old things, like regression • • New approaches to data analysis • http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~stine/

  6. Discover what tools do you use? • Microsoft Excel • SPSS • Minitab • SAS • R • other

  7. what is the right tool for the job? • There is no right answer but you should consider: • Data format • Size of data set • Type of analysis that you expect to perform.

  8. Data Type Numeric/Character Nominal Ordinance Continuous

  9. Size of Data Small – data lines to 1 TB Big Data greater than 1 TB

  10. Type of Analysis • Descriptive • Histograms, • Pie charts • Moziacs, Etc • Analysis/Analytics • Summary Statistics • Regression • Correlation • Anova, etc

  11. SAS Software Demo SAS JMP – Data Analytics with data stored locally on PC or Mac More details: http://www.jmp.com/academic/academic-resources.shtml SAS University Edition – Data Analytics with any side dataset http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/university-edition.html SAS On Demand Academic http://support.sas.com/ondemand/index.html SAS Curriculum Pathways http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/portal/

  12. What is the SAS Student Academy? • The Student Academy has been designed to achieve the following objectives: • Reduce the skill shortage of SAS programmers/specialists • Produce graduates with SAS knowledge • Improve student employability (our customers are always looking for SAS skilled Graduates) • Increase awareness of SAS • Create national/ global special interest group in applied analytics

  13. SAS & Academia • SAS has always had a very strong connection with Academia since it was created at North Carolina State University by Dr Jim Goodnight. • SAS has dedicated millions of Pounds worth of software and support for Academic institutions around the world. • In the UK alone we have agreements in place with over 70 Universities Teaching SAS or using SAS for Research.

  14. Any Questions?

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