Comments | hawklady: Request for Assistance: SAS/R book recommendations

hawklady

Request for Assistance: SAS/R book recommendations

Jan 22, 2014 19:53

Time to update my data analytics skills ... I'm enrolled in a course that includes learning to use SAS and R. R gets installed ASAP once I'm done packing for Conflikt; SAP will be coming next week when the student licensing gets processed ( Read more... )

help, data, school

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tagryn January 24 2014, 01:30:56 UTC

SAS:
* I think a good place to start with SAS would be "The Little SAS Book" http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-SAS-Book-Edition/dp/1599947250/
Here's a good review of it: http://www.sasbookreview.com/2011/01/review-of-the-little-sas-book/
* Another good book along the same lines is "Quick Start to Data Analysis with SAS", but sadly it appears to be out of print: http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Start-Analysis-Statistics-Software/dp/0534237606

R:I learned R last semester as a sidebar to a survey methodology course, but didn't have a text to work from (that may have been part of why I found it rather frustrating). You may actually have an easier time learning R if you don't have a background in another language like SAS or SPSS, because it has ( ... )

hawklady January 24 2014, 18:08:01 UTC

oooooh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

I'm in Seattle now for Conflikt, and if I can't find some of those texts in a store here, or in Powell's at Portland, then it's hopeless :)

I really appreciate it!

tagryn March 12 2014, 00:59:31 UTC

Another thing about R: there's a lot of free frontend user interfaces which make using it much easier to use/learn. My personal favorite is RStudio, but there's others like R Commander which are nearly as good.

tagryn January 24 2014, 01:31:36 UTC

Check spam folder, my reply went there because it had too many links in it.

hawklady January 24 2014, 18:08:12 UTC

Done, and un-spammed. Thanks again.

surrdave January 24 2014, 03:41:57 UTC

Thinking of becoming a quant, eh? Don't know much about SAS/R, but I can ask around.

hawklady January 24 2014, 18:10:16 UTC

Not so much 'becoming' as 'getting buzzword on resume'. Plus I've enjoyed it when I have done it in the past.

This is sort of "learning how to do it the way most of the rest of the world does it", instead of with my own tools and assumptions and fairly weak math background.

How have you been? It was great seeing you at GAFilk, short as it was.