MATTHEW PARKER: Hi.
I'm Matthew.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: And I'm Tejas.
We're from SAS Technical Support.
And we're here to talk to you about SAS Enterprise
Miner, which is included in SAS OnDemand for Academics.
MATTHEW PARKER: SAS OnDemand for Academics
is a free tool for teaching SAS.
It includes several products, one of which
is SAS Enterprise Miner.
SAS Enterprise Miner provides descriptive and predictive
modeling, which offers insights for better decision making.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: If your instructor
has included SAS Enterprise Miner as part of your class,
then this video is for you.
We'll go for three topics.
How to set it up, how to use your own data,
and where to go to for help.
MATTHEW PARKER: SAS Enterprise Miner is a JAVA application.
So you need a supported version of Java on your machine.
We have all the details about how
to configure Java for SAS Enterprise
Miner in a link in the description for this video.
But we'll go ahead and give you an overview here.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: You can check to see if you already
have Java on your Windows machine
by submitting the command javaws from a command prompt.
This command is short for the Java Web Start application.
If the javaws window client appears,
then you have a Java client installed.
To see what version of Java you have,
simply submit the command javaws-viewer.
When the viewer appears, close it
so you can see the Java control panel.
On the Java tab, click View to open the Java
runtime environment settings dialog box.
In this dialog box you can see what version of Java
you have installed.
MATTHEW PARKER: If you want to test
whether your installed version of Java works,
just open the SAS OnDemand for Academics control panel
and select the link to start SAS Enterprise Miner.
When SAS Enterprise Miner starts,
create a new project as another validation
that the software is working as it should.
If you can create the project, you're all set.
If you receive an error, double check SAS
note 61038 to review which versions of Java are supported.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: When you click the link
to start SAS Enterprise Miner, a Java program
is downloaded to your machine.
And that program is run by your Java Web Start client.
It might take a minute or so for that interface display.
One of the frequent questions that we get
is, how to use my own data with SAS Enterprise Miner?
Matthew, what would you do in this situation?
MATTHEW PARKER: Part of SAS OnDemand for Academic
is SAS Studio.
We will use the SAS Studio interface to upload our data
to the folder of our choice.
Once the data is uploaded, I can right-click the folder
and select Properties to open the properties dialog box
and see the physical location where the data lives.
I'll use that location in my LIBNAME statement.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: If you don't know
how to use SAS Studio or a LIBNAME statement,
you can go to the SAS Analytics U Community and ask there.
From the SAS support communities you
can supplement your knowledge, obtain programming help,
or get solutions from experienced SAS users.
There's a link to the SAS Analytics U Community
in the video description.
MATTHEW PARKER: Now that I have the physical location for where
my data resides in SAS Studio, I can
go back to my project in SAS Enterprise Miner
and submit a LIBNAME statement as a start code.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: Now that Matthew's added
a LIBNAME statement to the project start code, every time
he opens a project that library is allocated
and you can reference the data.
MATTHEW PARKER: That's a quick overview
of SAS Enterprise Miner for SAS OnDemand for Academics.
Remember, that there are links below to the topics
that we discussed, including a link to the SAS Analytics U
Community.
TEJAS PARUTHOOLI: Thanks for watching.