SAS is comparable to other softwares for data analysis. I use it for educational research that required multiple regression and descriptive statistics. SAS has any statistical procedure I needed to run in a university setting. SAS Social Media Analytics seems like a very neat tool that I would like to use in the future. I prefer this software when I have to analysis large sets of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAS is not as user friendly and I had to seek assistance on multiple occasions. I had received training on statistical procedures but do not consider myself a statistician, therefore, it was important for me to find something that was easy to use. For example, you have to know programing code and remember it for analysis. Although, I did not pay for my use of it when I considered purchasing my own; I found that it was more expensive than other available softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I really appreciate SAS' straightforward nature. Once you have a bank of the most relevant and frequent code you'll be using, its simply plugging and chugging from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While it is easy in nature, when you get a very long line of code its easy to make one minute mistake that will render the rest of your code is ineffective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAS is very detail-oriented. It allows for analysis with large data-sets, and we have found it very useful in public heath research. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAS is relatively expensive compared to other statistical software, such as R. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As with any stat softwares you need to know what is important about it and what to use it for, so I do research within Industry setting and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Writing my own codes, sometimes I forget what to do! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Data manipulation is so much easier in SA than in other programs (SPSS for example). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cannot "see" the data to look for abnormalities without running a proc freq. Having access to the visual interface allows for scanning the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the visualization aspect of this software. Easy to check quality through the entire lifecycle! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The support/ help desk feature is not great. It has taken me a lot of time to resolve issues in the past, when I was learning how to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
the flow chart-like interface that clearly demonstrate how each data sources are integrated, matched, and cleaned in each step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
the visual presentation or visual analytics can be enhanced. Although multiple data sources can be managed simultaneously, there are other subject-specific issues, such as multiple names of the same individual, when merging the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SAS is a very flexible software, the functions makes programming easy to work with. There are plenty of solutions online and help is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is a learning curve, and some of the code can be confusing, if used by unskilled coders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.