Today, September 8th, is International Literacy Day! A day celebrated by UNESCO since 1967 to emphasize the importance of literacy around the world. Here at SAS, we have decided to highlight data literacy, a critical part of our evolving knowledge as data and analytics continue to dominate the way we do business.
SAS Press author Susan Slaughter defines data literacy as, “understanding that data are not dry, dusty, abstract squiggles on a computer screen, but represent living things: people, plants, animals. You know you are fluent in a foreign language when you are comfortable speaking it and can communicate what you want to say. The same is true for data literacy; it is about reaching a level of comfort, about being able to communicate what is important to you, and about seeing the meaning behind the data.
Everyone knows that technology is becoming more and more a part of everyday life. Without data literacy, people become passive recipients; with data literacy, you can actively engage with technology. SAS calls it ‘the power to know’ and that's an accurate description.”
SAS Press has been helping users be more fluent in data literacy for almost 30 years! The Little SAS Book is about to publish its sixth edition and has been helping programmers learn SAS and analyze their data since 1995.
Free SAS Press e-books
To celebrate national literacy day and do our part in sharing about data literacy, SAS Press would like to share with you our free e-books on a range of topics related to data analytics. These books focus on topics such as text analytics, data management, AI, and Machine Learning.
Moving to the cloud?
Looking for information on SAS Viya? Download our two new free e-books on Exploring SAS Viya. Both books cover the features and capabilities of SAS Viya. SAS Viya extends the SAS platform to enable everyone – data scientists, business analysts, developers, and executives alike – to collaborate and realize innovative results faster.
Here is a list of our free e-books on SAS Viya:
Exploring SAS ®Viya®: Programming and Data Management
This first book in the series covers how to access data files, libraries, and existing code in SAS® Studio. You also will learn about new procedures in SAS Viya, how to write new code, and how to use some of the pre-installed tasks that come with SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.
Exploring SAS® Viya®: Visual Analytics, Statistics, and Investigations
Data visualization enables decision-makers to see analytics presented visually so that they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. This book includes four visualization solutions powered by SAS Viya: SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Visual Statistics, SAS Visual Text Analytics, and SAS Visual Investigator.
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