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Course Schedule, Part-time Online Program

Please note that course schedules may be amended due to low enrollment, faculty availability, and/or other factors.

Online Sync Sessions are an integral part of the online learning experience. Additional information about learning concepts and assignments may be discussed and sync sessions offer valuable opportunities for students to interact with their faculty and peers during the term. We encourage all students to attend live, but if they are unable to, sync sessions will be recorded and posted within Canvas to allow for an asynchronous model of success as well.

MSDS 491-DL : SAS Programming

Description

The SAS programming language and environment, available since 1960, continues to be used in many Fortune 500 companies. SAS provides extensive libraries for data preparation, analytics, and modeling. The course prepares students for programming and consulting roles that require the maintenance of legacy SAS code and conversion of that code to open-source solutions in Python. Students use the SAS data step for data preparation, missing data imputation, and working with external databases (SQL). They use SAS statistical procedures for linear regression, logistic regression, and multivariate analysis.  Prerequisites: (1) MSDS 420-DL Database Systems or CIS 417 Database Systems Design and Implementation and (2) MSDS 422-DL Practical Machine Learning or CIS 435 Practical Data Science Using Machine Learning.