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.