SAS Viya For Learners

Educators and students, sign up for free access to advanced analytics software for teaching and learning leading-edge data science skills. SAS Viya for Learners is a full suite of cloud-based software that supports the entire analytics life cycle and lets you code in SAS, Python or R. For academic, noncommercial use only.

Why choose SAS Viya for Learners?

Advantages for educators

• A free suite of analytics software from SAS. Build a complete advanced analytics program – from entry-level to doctorate – with a single software environment.
• More time to spend teaching analytics. We'll provide the tools your students need to learn the software – including SAS courses online chat, web tutorials, e-learning opportunities, documentation, communities and world-class technical support – leaving you free to teach analytics and critical thinking skills.
• Curriculum support. Get curriculum support for using SAS in the classroom and building an advanced analytics curriculum. We'll help you build an advanced analytics curriculum and delivery platform that will boost graduate career placement rates.

Advantages for students

• Free advanced analytics software from SAS. Program in your language of choice – SAS, Python, R. Easily create visualizations to explain your work.
• Marketable skills. Explore data, discover insights and deploy models within a single, free software offering. And show off your skills with badges and certification opportunities.
• Real-world practice. Work with true business use cases using the same SAS software used by 90% of the Fortune 100, or their affiliates.
• Free help when you need it. Access easy-to-digest learning materials – from basic programming through advanced deep learning, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Learn every phase of the analytics life cycle from a single software environment

Prepare data for analysis

A self-service, point-and-click environment makes it easy to access, integrate, transform and modify data so that it's ready for analysis.

Visually explore data to discover new insights

Interactive, self-service visualization tools enable you to easily search for relationships, trends and patterns to gain a deeper understanding of your data. Then create stunning reports and dashboards to share via the web and mobile devices.

Create models in an integrated environment

A visual, drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to build and refine a range of descriptive and predictive models for data mining, machine learning, time series forecasting, operations research and more.

Deploy & manage models

Discover how easy it is to deploy models quickly using repeatable, automated and governed processes. You can easily trace modeling activities, make modifications and test continually in a single environment.