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can someone who knows explain what SAS is and why it is useful( without buzzwords ) Is it a scripting language that deals with data? How is it better than SQL?
by utnick 17y ago
can someone who knows explain what SAS is and why it is useful( without buzzwords )
Is it a scripting language that deals with data?
How is it better than SQL?
- tectonic 17y agoI think it's closer to a language for easily expressing and computing statistics, like R, with a very powerful set of existing methods. Anyone?
- earl 17y agoSAS is a couple things. The origin is a stats system. For a long time, they were the only stats package in town that was good at working on data that was larger than available memory. This is still mostly true, but people's definition of large data has outrun what even SAS can offer and people are falling back on MR frameworks. They make their money with BI. It's a language, database system, ETL, and set of premade programs that are all about BI and analytics. They have stuff built out for large clients, so if you are eg a university or a large manufacturing concern or a bank or an ibank or a casino, etc, there are large bodies of preexisting functionality.