In addition, a business case study is defined to guide participants through all steps of the analytical life cycle, from problem understanding to model deployment, through data preparation, feature selection, model training and validation, and model assessment and deployment.

The e-learning version of this course provides access to SAS Viya for Learners, which enables students to use the software to complete the practices.

Learn how to

• Apply the analytical life cycle to business need.
• Incorporate a business-problem-solving approach in daily activities.
• Prepare and explore data for analytical model development.
• Create and select features for predictive modeling.
• Develop a series of supervised learning models based on different techniques such as decision tree, ensemble of trees (forest and gradient boosting), neural networks, and support vector machines.
• Evaluate and select the best model based on business needs.
• Deploy and manage analytical models under production.

Who should attend

Business analysts, data analysts, marketing analysts, marketing managers, data scientists, data engineers, financial analysts, data miners, statisticians, mathematicians, and others who work in correlated areas