Make my day… take advantage of graphical insights with SAS in under an hour!

To all you long-time users of SAS out there, why are you continuing to write the arcane code required to make graphs with SAS programming?  I remember the pain of scanning the nearly 1,000 pages of GRAPH manuals to locate just the right options to tweak my graphs for business presentations.  Many days, I wanted to ditch it all and just fall back to Harvard Graphics for all of my graphs (yes, this was quite some time ago!)  Consider using SAS Enterprise Guide and save yourself many sleepless nights and get the easy ability to export to Office seamlessly.

EG- the new home for long-time SAS users

A recent post on SAS-L asks about using EG in a group that has used SAS for quite some time.  Here are my thoughts, if you have others feel free to post them as comments!

Can LE 2.0 or EG 2.1 be used with SAS for Dummies?

Question: from a reader in Sweden

 

Just saw on Amazon that this new book is available. I know the examples in it are from using Enterprise Guide 4.1, but I have the Learning edition 2.0 which includes Enterprise Guide 2.1. Can I still use the book, or are these versions of Enterprise Guide very different?
 

Answer: from Stephen

SAS for Dummies a new textbook at Duke Med School

SAS for Dummies is being used at Duke University Medical School as one of two texts for a course on Introduction to Statistical Methods.  See http://crtp.mc.duke.edu/content.asp?page=courseinfo.  The program the book is being used in is described as:

“… provides academic training in the quantitative and methodological principles of clinical research. Designed primarily for clinical fellows who are training for academic careers, the program offers formal courses in research design, research management, medical genomics, and statistical analysis.”

I have to say this is somewhat of a surprise at first

SAS for Dummies- Overview

Writing this book has been exciting, tiring, fascinating, challenging, and ultimately a very gratifying task. We worked hard to ensure that it provides a very broad but practical look at SAS 9. Here is an outline of the chapters that are planned (pending final reviews, tweaks, and page constraints):  

High-Level Table of Contents
Part I: Welcome to SAS!  

Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World SAS
Chapter 2: Connecting with SAS: Enterprise Guide
Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS

“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