{"id":4110,"date":"2014-06-06T11:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2014-06-06T11:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:59:40","slug":"getting-started-with-sas-enterprise-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/getting-started-with-sas-enterprise-miner\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Miner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting this here for my students this fall, but I&#8217;m sure there are two or three other people in the world who would like to know how to use Enterprise Miner. I&#8217;m assuming you read some of my other posts or received an email from your professor or in other ways got Enterprise Miner installed and running.<\/p>\n<p>If not, you should read the documentation. Or, you are welcome to poke around on this blog and find out what I did. Just type &#8220;miner&#8221; into the search box.<\/p>\n<p>To proceed:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start Enterprise Miner<\/li>\n<li>Create a new project<\/li>\n<li>Give it a name<\/li>\n<li>Create a new library so you have some data &#8211; File &gt; New &gt; Library<\/li>\n<li>Type in a name and your course library, something like &#8220;\/courses\/yourschool.edu1\/a_123\/b_456&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Create a new diagram &#8211; File &gt; New &gt; Diagram<\/li>\n<li>Create a data source (this strikes me as counter-intuitive, since I\u00a0have the data source in the library, but whatever. Here is how you do it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources-300x170.png\" alt=\"data sources tab\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources.png 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>* Right-Click on the data sources tab<\/li>\n<li>* it will come up with a drop down menu with 1 option, create data source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>* pick that<\/li>\n<li>* It will come up with this window.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources2-300x157.png\" alt=\"select table\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources2-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources2.png 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Select SAS table, which is the\u00a0\u00a0exact same thing as a SAS data set<\/li>\n<li>* Click Next and it will bring up the list of libraries available\u00a0\u00a0including the one you just added in the last step<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources3-300x263.png\" alt=\"libraries\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources3-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources3.png 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>* Double-click to select your library<\/li>\n<li>* Select your dataset and then<\/li>\n<li>Click OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>The next few screens give you information on your data.\u00a0In my course, the first assignment is for the students to use these to answer:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>How many variables in the data set<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0How many observations<\/li>\n<li>.How many of these are nominal variables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Select one of the variables that is NOT nominal. Click the explore tab.<\/li>\n<li>Write one paragraph describing these results. Include a screen shot of your\u00a0results<\/li>\n<li>Click the COMPUTE SUMMARY STATISTICS tab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources4-300x150.png\" alt=\"your data\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources4-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources4-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/datasources4.png 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a one paragraph summary of these results, only hitting the high(low)lights\u00a0such as 98% of the data for variable v_1980 are missing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously this isn&#8217;t a feasible assignment if you have 6,000 variables, but I try to have courses that increase gradually in order of difficulty, starting with a relatively small data set and then going to gradually larger and more complex ones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting this here for my students this fall, but I&#8217;m sure there are two or three other people in the world who would like to know how to use Enterprise Miner. 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