Harish Gulati – författare

Data is constantly increasing and data analysts are in higher demand than ever. This book is an essential guide to the role of data analyst. Aspiring data analysts will discover what data analysts do all day, what skills they will need for the role, and what regulations they will be required to adhere to. Practising data analysts can explore useful data analysis tools, methods and techniques, brush up on best practices and look at how they can advance their career.

Data is constantly increasing and data analysts are in higher demand than ever. This book is an essential guide to the role of data analyst. Aspiring data analysts will discover what data analysts do all day, what skills they will need for the role, and what regulations they will be required to adhere to. Practising data analysts can explore useful data analysis tools, methods and techniques, brush up on best practices and look at how they can advance their career.

Data is constantly increasing and data analysts are in higher demand than ever. This book is an essential guide to the role of data analyst. Aspiring data analysts will discover what data analysts do all day, what skills they will need for the role, and what regulations they will be required to adhere to. Practising data analysts can explore useful data analysis tools, methods and techniques, brush up on best practices and look at how they can advance their career.

Leverage the analytical power of SAS to perform financial analysis efficiently

About This Book

Leverage the power of SAS to analyze financial data with easeFind hidden patterns in your data, predict future trends, and optimize risk managementLearn why leading banks and financial institutions rely on SAS for financial analysis

Who This Book Is For

Financial data analysts and data scientists who want to use SAS to process and analyze financial data and find hidden patterns and trends from it will find this book useful. Prior exposure to SAS will be helpful but is not mandatory. Some basic understanding of the financial concepts is required.

What You Will Learn

Understand time series data and its relevance in the financial industryBuild a time series forecasting model in SAS using advanced modeling theoriesDevelop models in SAS and infer using regression and Markov chainsForecast in?ation by building an econometric model in SAS for your financial planningManage customer loyalty by creating a survival model in SAS using various groupingsUnderstand similarity analysis and clustering in SAS using time series data

In Detail

SAS is a groundbreaking tool for advanced predictive and statistical analytics used by top banks and financial corporations to establish insights from their financial data.

SAS for Finance offers you the opportunity to leverage the power of SAS analytics in redefining your data. Packed with real-world examples from leading financial institutions, the author discusses statistical models using time series data to resolve business issues.

This book shows you how to exploit the capabilities of this high-powered package to create clean, accurate financial models. You can easily assess the pros and cons of models to suit your unique business needs.

By the end of this book, you will be able to leverage the true power of SAS to design and develop accurate analytical models to gain deeper insights into your financial data.

Style and approach

A comprehensive guide filled with use-cases will ensure that you have a very good conceptual and practical understanding of using SAS in the finance domain.

Leverage the full potential of SAS to get unique, actionable insights from your dataKey FeaturesBuild enterprise-class data solutions using SAS and become well-versed in SAS programmingWork with different data structures, and run SQL queries to manipulate your dataExplore essential concepts and techniques with practical examples to confidently pass the SAS certification examBook DescriptionSAS is one of the leading enterprise tools in the world today when it comes to data management and analysis. It enables the fast and easy processing of data and helps you gain valuable business insights for effective decision-making. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide that will prepare you for the SAS certification exam.After a quick overview of the SAS architecture and components, the book will take you through the different approaches to importing and reading data from different sources using SAS. You will then cover SAS Base and 4GL, understanding data management and analysis, along with exploring SAS functions for data manipulation and transformation. Next, you'll discover SQL procedures and get up to speed on creating and validating queries. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn all about data visualization, right from creating bar charts and sample geographic maps through to assigning patterns and formats. In addition to this, the book will focus on macro programming and its advanced aspects.By the end of this book, you will be well versed in SAS programming and have the skills you need to easily handle and manage your data-related problems in SAS.What you will learnExplore a variety of SAS modules and packages for efficient data analysisUse SAS 4GL functions to manipulate, merge, sort, and transform dataGain useful insights into advanced PROC SQL options in SAS to interact with dataGet to grips with SAS Macro and define your own macros to share dataDiscover the different graphical libraries to shape and visualize data withApply the SAS Output Delivery System to prepare detailed reportsWho this book is forBudding or experienced data professionals who want to get started with SAS will benefit from this book. Those looking to prepare for the SAS certification exam will also find this book to be a useful resource. Some understanding of basic data management concepts will help you get the most out of this book.