Welcome to the Visual Business Analyst Professional Certificate. I'm Nicole Ball. For the past six years, I've been a Technical Trainer in SAS Education, where I've taught courses on SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Data Quality, and the SAS programming language. I'm also a course developer for SAS Visual Analytics, which includes writing and updating our courses and preparing customized training. For this professional certificate, you begin by learning to use SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya to prepare data, perform data discovery and analysis, and create interactive reports. Then, you learn how to use advanced functionality in SAS Visual Analytics to restructure data, create advanced calculated columns, create and apply advanced filters, and add parameters to make your reports more dynamic. SAS Visual Analytics uses the power of Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) to perform advanced analytic computations on your data at impressive speeds. The secret to this speed is the multi-threaded algorithms used by CAS to process in-memory data. This, coupled with the visual, drag-and-drop interface, means that virtually anyone can create advanced analyses in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional programming methods. To be a successful business analyst, you'll need to use everything at your disposal to learn about your data quickly and efficiently and create reports that can be shared with anyone, anywhere. SAS Visual Analytics is the perfect tool to help you with this task. Let's get started!