Duration
14 hours (usually 2 days including breaks)
Requirements
- Experience with R programming
- SAS experience
Audience
- Data Analysts
Overview
R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing. SAS is a statistical software platform for predictive analysis, data management, advanced analytics, and more. With R in SAS, users can find natural groups of data for cluster analysis that are essential to data mining.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to program with R in SAS for cluster analysis.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Use cluster analysis for data mining
- Master R syntax for clustering solutions.
- Implement hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering.
- Make data-driven decisions to help to improve business operations.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
Introduction
Cluster Analysis
- What is cluster analysis?
- Types of cluster types
Cluster Analysis Continued
- Cluster analysis vs object segmentation
- Hierarchical vs non-hierarchical clustering
Preparing the Development Environment
- Installing and configuring SAS
- Installing and configuring R
Cluster Analysis with SAS
- Importing data
- Standardizing data
- Implementing hierarchical clustering
- Interpretting output
- Working with K means clustering for non-hierarchical
- Interpretting output
Cluster Analysis with R
- Using hierarchical clustering functions
- Working with non-hierarchical clustering functions
Summary and Conclusion