The data sets are in SAS format. The "Getting Started" section of the book describes how to import them to SAS Enterprise Miner.
The data sets help build predictive models in the following industries:
Banking,
Healthcare,
Sports,
Housing,
Retail,
Education,
Transportation,
etc.
Most of the data sets are obtained from Kaggle with a few exceptions. They are public and do not have any copyrights. Also, some data sets are modified from their original versions. Where applicable, credit is given to those who processed these data sets.