SAS Viya : The Python Perspective

**Learn how to access analytics from SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) using Python and the SAS^®^ Viya^TM^ platform.** This book focuses on the perspective of SAS Viya from Python. SAS Viya is made up of multiple components. The central piece of this ecosystem is SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). CAS is the cloud-based server that all clients communicate with to run analytical methods. The Python client is used to drive the CAS component directly using objects and constructs that are familiar to Python programmers. With this book, you will learn how to: SAS^®^ Viya^TM^: The Python Perspective covers topics that will be useful to beginners as well as experienced CAS users. It includes examples from creating connections to CAS all the way to simple statistics and machine learning, but it is also useful as a desktop reference.

Learn how to access analytics from SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) using Python and the SAS Viya platform.
SAS Viya: The Python Perspective is an introduction to using the Python client on the SAS Viya platform. SAS Viya is a high-performance, fault-tolerant analytics architecture that can be deployed on both public and private cloud infrastructures. While SAS Viya can be used by various SAS applications, it also enables you to access analytic methods from SAS, Python, Lua, and Java, as well as through a REST interface using HTTP or HTTPS.
This book focuses on the perspective of SAS Viya from Python. SAS Viya is made up of multiple components. The central piece of this ecosystem is SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). CAS is the cloud-based server that all clients communicate with to run analytical methods. The Python client is used to drive the CAS component directly using objects and constructs that are familiar to Python programmers.
Some knowledge of Python would be helpful before using this book; however, there is an appendix that covers the features of Python that are used in the CAS Python client. Knowledge of CAS is not required to use this book. However, you will need to have a CAS server set up and running to execute the examples in this book.
With this book, you will learn how to:

• Install the required components for accessing CAS from Python
• Connect to CAS, load data, and run simple analyses
• Work with CAS using APIs familiar to Python users
• Grasp general CAS workflows and advanced features of the CAS Python client

SAS Viya: The Python Perspective covers topics that will be useful to beginners as well as experienced CAS users. It includes examples from creating connections to CAS all the way to simple statistics and machine learning, but it is also useful as a desktop reference.

Learn how to access analytics from SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) using Python and the SAS® Viya platform. SAS® Viya: The Python Perspective is an introduction to using the Python client on the SAS Viya platform. SAS Viya is a high-performance, fault-tolerant analytics architecture that can be deployed on both public and private cloud infrastructures. While SAS Viya can be used by various SAS applications, it also enables you to access analytic methods from SAS, Python, Lua, and Java, as well as through a REST interface using HTTP or HTTPS. This book focuses on the perspective of SAS Viya from Python. SAS Viya is made up of multiple components. The central piece of this ecosystem is SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). CAS is the cloud-based server that all clients communicate with to run analytical methods. The Python client is used to drive the CAS component directly using objects and constructs that are familiar to Python programmers. Some knowledge of Python would be helpful before using this book; however, there is an appendix that covers the features of Python that are used in the CAS Python client. Knowledge of CAS is not required to use this book. However, you will need to have a CAS server set up and running to execute the examples in this book. With this book, you will learn how to: Install the required components for accessing CAS from Python Connect to CAS, load data, and run simple analyses Work with CAS using APIs familiar to Python users Learn about general CAS workflows and advanced features of the CAS Python client SAS® Viya: The Python Perspective covers topics that will be useful to beginners as well as experienced CAS users. It includes examples from creating connections to CAS all the way to simple statistics and machine learning, but it is also useful as a desktop reference. Installing Python, SAS SWAT, and CAS -- The ten-minute guide to using CAS from Python -- The fundamentals of using Python with CAS -- Managing your data with CAS -- The CASAction and CASTable objects -- Working with CAS tables -- Data exploration and summary statistics -- Modeling continuous variables -- Modeling categorical variables -- Advanced topics Taking you on a journey to learn and apply Python programming in the context of the SAS Viya platform, this book includes examples from creating connections to CAS all the way to simple statistics and machine learning. -- Edited summary from book Taking you on a journey to learn and apply Python programming in the context of the SAS Viya platform, this book includes examples from creating connections to CAS all the way to simple statistics and machine learning. -- Résumé du livre