SAS for Automated Data Preparation: Streamlining Analytics for Faster Insights
One of the most time-consuming parts of the analytics process is preparing the data. Before analysts can draw meaningful insights from data, it has to be cleaned, transformed, and structured in a way that’s usable. But as the volume of data grows, so does the complexity of this task. Enter SAS , with its automated data preparation tools that save businesses time, reduce errors, and make the data analytics process more efficient. The Pain of Data Preparation Data preparation is one of those necessary but tedious tasks that every analyst knows too well. Raw data is often messy—full of inconsistencies, missing values, and formatting issues. Sorting through this and transforming it into something useful can take up the majority of an analyst’s time, slowing down the entire data analysis process. And the longer this step takes, the longer it takes to get to the insights that can drive real business decisions. Fortunately, SAS automates much of this data wrangling, allowing businesses ...