Browsing on the web, I ran into a simple but visually interesting graph of financial data. Really, it could be any data, but this one showed up under "Financial Graphs". I thought this would give me an opportunity to speak about an interesting new feature added to SERIES plot with
Index of articles on "Getting Started with SGPLOT Procedure". Getting Started with SGPLOT - Part 1 - Scatter Plot. Getting Started with SGPLOT - Part 2 - VBAR. Getting Started with SGPLOT - Part 3 - VBOX. Getting Started with SGPLOT - Part 4 - Series Plot. Getting Started with
One of the key benefits of creating graphs using GTL or SG Procedures is their support of plot layering to create complex graphs and layouts. Most simple graphs can be created by a single plot statement like a Bar Chart. Complex graphs can be created by layering appropriate plot statements to
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting my paper "Graphs are Easy with SAS 9.4" at the Boston SAS Users Group meeting. The turn out was large and over 75% of the audience appeared to be using SAS 9.4 back home. This was good as my paper was focused on the cool new
As often is the case, this article is prompted by a recent post on the SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics page communities page. A user wanted to create a Graph Table showing a bar chart with tabular data for each of the category values along the x-axis. The user was creatively using
Often we see bar charts showing revenues or other related measures by a classifier using a visual of a stack of coins. Such visuals are not strictly for the purposes of accurate magnitude comparisons, but more for providing an interesting visual to attract the attention of the reader. In other words -
At the 2013 SAS Global Forum, I presented a paper titled "Make a Good Graph" which reviewed some of the features that make for a good graph. This paper presents an aggregation of ideas from various sources, including some recommendations from thought leaders in the graphics arena such as Edward Tufte,
For a long time, Starbucks represented to me as the good coffee cup, with me paying upwards of $4 for a Latte. But on a recent visit to San Francisco, my son introduced me to a few other options. Philz crafts a great cup of java, with the barista making
Recently a user was working with the HBAR statement with cluster groups with SG procedures. User wanted to see the group values on the axis. SGPLOT does not display multi level axes as these are shared with different plot types. However, with SGPLOT, there is often a way to get
In the previous article on managing legends, I described the way to include items in a legend that may not exist in the data. This is done by defining a Discrete Attribute Map, and then requesting that all the values defined in the map should be displayed in the legend. In
