Reference no: EM133146582
Assessment Task: Lab Report
Requirements: You are required to complete each week's lab work, including using related software to implement experiments and projects, and record related process and results of each week's lab work and summarize the lab work of all the nine weeks (week 1 to week 9) into ONE report and submit this report for assessment.
Lab Exercise 1 - Introduction to SAS
Project 1: Installation of SAS
In this course, you would use software SAS University Edition to practice SAS programming and to do different kinds of experiments. SAS University Edition is available for free and it includes all features that enable you to learn Base SAS.
As SAS University Edition works as a virtual machine, it requires you to run it in a virtual environment. You need to install a virtualization software on your PC before you run the SAS software.
Project 2: Knowing interfaces in SAS Studio
Project 3. Answering questions
1. Install SAS University Edition in your computer.
2. Exploring one or two the built-in data set provided by SAS libraries.
3. Managers usually make decisions by following a four-step process. What are the steps?
Project 4. Creating a Professional Report
Summarize the above experiments procedure, results, answering questions and screenshots (project 1, 2, 3) into one report. Your report is the assignment that is required to be submitted for evaluation on week 9. Create a report by following the steps below.
1. Open Word document, copy your experiments procedure, results, answering questions and screenshots (project 1, 2, 3) into a word document.
2. Select all content , align all text to both left and right margin.
3. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, right-click Heading 1 in the Quick Style gallery. Click Modify style , click Format , click Font , then select Font color to Black, select Font style to Bold, select Font size to 18 , then click Ok
4. Create a shortcut key for Chapter. Click Format , click Shortcut key , in text box Press new shortcut key, type Ctrl + A, click Close, click OK
5. Select a style for sub-Chapter. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, right- click Heading 2 in the Quick Style gallery. Click Modify style , click Format , click Font , then select Font color to Black, select Font style to Italic, select Font size to 14 , then click Ok
6. Create a shortcut key for sub-Chapter. click Format , click Shortcut key, in text box Press new shortcut key, type Ctrl + B, click Close, click OK
7. Insert a page number to your document
8. You may call the summary of Week 1 lab work as Chapter 1 and the summary of Week 2 lab work as Chapter 2, ..., etc.
9. Format your Chapter 1. At the beginning in your report, Press shortcut key Ctrl + A , then type Chapter 1: Introduction to SAS.
10. Format your sub-Chapter. At proper position within Chapter 1, Press shortcut key Ctrl + B , then type 1.1 Project 1: Installation of SAS.
11. Repeat step 10 and format sub-Chapter for Project 2 and Project 3
12. Insert a table of contents for your report. At the beginning of your report, Click where you want to insert the table of contents
13. On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click insert Table of Contents, then select Formal , click OK
14. Insert a cover page. On the Insert tab, in the cover page group, select Conservative, then add your name and ID number.
Lab Exercise 2 - Manipulating your data and creating a report
Lab Exercise 3 - Introduction of Tableau Software
Lab Exercise 4 - Exploring complex data visualization
Lab Exercise 5 - Introduction of SAS programming
Lab Exercise 6 - SAS programming -1 Working with data
Lab Exercise - SAS programming -2 Conditional and looping processing
Attachment:- experiments and projects.rar