SAS^® Visual Data Discovery

What is SAS^® Visual Data Discovery? SAS Visual Data Discovery, powered by JMP^{^®} software, provides a point-and-click user interface to the advanced analytics capabilities of SAS/STAT^® and other analytical modules (such as SAS/ETS^®, SAS/QC^®, SAS/OR^® and SAS/IML^®) that can be purchased as add-ons.

What does SAS^® Visual Data Discovery do? SAS Visual Data Discovery provides interactive data visualization and a rich and collaborative environment for SAS programmers and advanced users to customize analysis by writing their own code and sharing with others via JMP plug-ins or SAS Stored Services. In addition, it supports the deployment of analytic tools to business users in a GUI, so even nonstatisticians and programmers not familiar with SAS can realize analytic excellence.

Why is SAS® Visual Data Discovery important? SAS Visual Data Discovery overcomes the inherent limitations in spreadsheets, static graphs, charts and tabular reports, providing a nonprogramming environment for exploratory data analysis. It enhances advanced analytics and exploratory data analysis with interactive data visualization, leading to better analysis, better decisions and more effective presentation of analytic results.

For whom is SAS^® Visual Data Discovery designed? SAS Visual Data Discovery is designed for people who need interactive data analysis and visualization capabilities, broad data preparation features, and deep analytics. Even nonstatisticians and programmers unfamiliar with SAS can access the power of SAS through the JMP environment.

For business users needing access to corporate data, the client/server version of SAS Visual Data Discovery includes SAS Integration Technologies for point-and-click access to corporate data assets stored in virtually any system. Complex analysis and reporting are available to business users through an interactive data analysis environment.

SAS Visual Data Discovery can be upgraded with SAS/ETS, SAS/QC, SAS/OR and SAS/IML to provide additional capabilities in forecasting, quality improvement, optimization and more specialized analyses and exploration.

Key Benefits

Allows users to interact with graphs to clarify results and take action. SAS Visual Data Discovery provides exploratory data analysis and interactive data visualization in an extendable point-and-click environment, dynamically linking statistics with graphics.
Provides immediacy and responsiveness for greater productivity. All data is held in memory during visualization, rather than having to wait while data is moved from and to disk. It takes advantage of multithreading to work faster in multiprocessor machines.
Overcomes data limitations. There are no limitations on table sizes, so you are limited only by your operating system and your computer's RAM.
Provides a powerful and comprehensive analytical environment without having to code. Users can point-and-click their way through the interface, and can customize their analysis with their own SAS programs.
Reduces overall costs and complexity with a full range of analysis, reporting and visualization capabilities from one vendor. SAS Visual Data Discovery was organically developed and is tightly integrated with the ability to leverage core SAS capabilities.
Helps achieve corporate and governmental compliance. You can generate repeatable results that are easily documented and verified.

Key Features

Highly interactive statistical graphics. Includes all standard plots and charts, along with animated bubble plots. New graphics can be created via the JSL programming language.
Visual querying and data filtering. Handles virtually unlimited data and lets you rearrange data at will. Interactive tabulation, with dynamically linked statistics and graphics, is provided for all reports and graphics.
Extensible visual analytics. Extend beyond built-in analytics capabilities by adding custom analyses with the SAS programming language.
Comprehensive set of tools for advanced statistical analysis. Provides access to all the functionality of SAS/STAT (or other analytics add-ons such as SAS/ETS, SAS/OR, SAS/QC and SAS/IML).

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