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AUserInterfaceToYourSASPrograms

HailemichaelM.Worku,OCSLifeSciences,theNetherlands

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Agenda§  IntroducHon§  CaseStudy:SASBaseforaReproducibleResearch§  AnAlterna/veApproach:viaSASEG§  ApplicaHon:

§ Front-end/Interface§ Back-end/‘TheMagic’§ ProcessFlowDiagram/logic

§  Conclusion

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IntroducHon

§  SASprogramsareusuallyplaintextSASscripts.§  Werantheminamanualorautomatedfashion.§  Challengesfor‘normal’Users:§  LackofinteracHvitywithusers(e.g.,inputparameters).§  Difficultforuserswhohaveli\leornoaffinityfor

programming.§  Usersareo]eninterestedonthefinalreportfor

revieworsubmission.

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CaseStudy1:SASBaseforDataAnalysis

§  TheCLASSdatasetisavailableinSASHELPlibrary.§  SASprogramsforimporHng,exploringandgeneraHng

reportonCLASSdataset.§  Moreoutputsthanwhatyouwouldnormallyexpect.

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CaseStudy1(Cont’d):TheChallenges?

§  WhatIf–aquesHonby‘normal’users?§  Areportforweightofsubjectsbygender(bothor

single).§  Excludeasubjectwhoseweightvalueisbelow/above

certainthresholdvalue.§  Importanytypeofclassdatasetandperformsimilar

tasks.§  Dousers‘care’aboutwhatishappingintheback-end/

The‘Magic’???

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AlternaHveApproach:viaSASEG

§  There'sarelaHvelyaccessiblesoluHoninSASEnterpriseGuide(EG).§  SASEGisanIDEdedicatedforSASdevelopment.

§  Add-InsinSASEGprovideafamiliar,customizableuserinterfacethatconnectstocustomSASprogramsinthebackground.

§  Thefront-end/userinterfacecanbebuiltusinghighlevelprogramminglanguages(.NET,C#,Java,etc).

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CaseStudy2:TempConverterAppThe Interface: TheBack-end/‘Magic’:

%lettxtFld_tempInput=37.75;%letcomboBox_fromTo=2;%include"temp_converter_pro.sas";

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CaseStudy3:Real-worldApplicaHons§  Thetemperatureconversionadd-in(TCApp)iseasierto

explainandunderstand.§  However,real-worldapplicaHonsaremorecomplex

andaimedfordifferenttasks.§  Titanic:MachineLearningfromDisaster§  TheTitanicdatasetisaboutsurvivalonTitanicship

thatwasmadeavailableonlineforfree(Kaggle:h\ps://www.kaggle.com/).

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Titanic:MachineLearningfromDisaster

§  TitanicDataset:§  Kaggleprovidestwosetofdatasets:theTrainingset

(train.csv)andtheTestset(test.csv).§  Thedatasetisabout2,224travelersandcrewwho

wereontheship(e.g.,age,gender,#siblings,#parents,fare,etc)

§  Themaindifferencebetweenthetwoinputfilesistheresponsevariable(survived:1=Yes;0=No).

§  Prizesforwinnersandjobopportunity.

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TheTitanicExplorerApp:Back-end/The‘Magic’

§  ThemainapplicaHonhasthreemaincomponents:§  ImporHngrawCSVfiles(train.csv&test.csv).§  MachineLearning(ML)part:

§  Preprocessingstep.§  Exploringstep.§  Fiwng/TesHngMLtechniques.

§  GeneraHngreport.§  Modularapproachistheway-to-go.

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Conclusion§  Usersaremainlyinterestedonthefollowing4tasks:

§  Loadingstudy/researchdata.§  Preprocessimporteddata.§  Performmaintasks(e.g.,explore,analyze,etc).§  Generateareportforreview/submission.

§  Usersarenoto]eninterestedaboutthe‘Magic'.§  BuildingsuchapplicaHon/add-incouldimproveUser’s

experience.§  SASprogramsusedfortheback-endisplaxorm

independent.

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