SAS: Explore Data

Understand Your Data Structure

View the contents of a SAS data set

Print a SAS data set

Sample the data

Determine the encoding of a data set

Generate Statistics about Your Data

Compute descriptive statistics

Identify extreme values

Find the number of clusters

Profile Your Data

Recognize patterns, identify sparsity, and generate frequency distributions

Determine a variable's cardinality

Visualize Data

Create a histogram

Create a scatter plot

Create a box plot

Create a high-low chart

SAS Courses

To learn more, see Section 2.1 Accessing and Basic Exploration and Section 2.3 Exploring Data in this course:

Modern Data Science with SAS Viya Workbench and Python

Last updated: May 2, 2025