Dan Heath
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Principal Systems Developer

Dan Heath is a principal systems developer at SAS Institute. A SAS user for more than 17 years, Dan specializes in SAS/GRAPH software, ODS Graphics, and related graphing technologies. Dan has been a speaker at a number of regional and local users’ group meetings, including SAS Global Forum, PharmaSUG, and Pacific Northwest SUG. He received a BS degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

Recent Posts

Roses are red, violets are blue... (part 2)

In the previous post, “Roses are red, violets are blue…”, I discussed the general problem of getting style attributes to line up with specific group ... Read More

Roses are red, violets are blue...

This classic start to a romantic poem assumes that the correct colors are always assigned to the correct flowers; but, for those who create graphs ... Read More

A (tool)tip for band plots

Recently, I had a discussion with a user concerning the volume of imagemap data generated for an interactive,  web-based visual contain a large number of ... Read More

They go where you put them

An issue that SAS/GRAPH users have wrestled with in the past has been how to put tick marks at irregular intervals on their axes. In ... Read More

Creating graphs can be a (multi-layered) piece of cake

When I give presentations on using the SG procedures, I try to describe how you can take simple plots and layer them to create more ... Read More

The Power of Unicode

The Unicode character table contains a vast array of  characters and symbols that can be quite useful for making your text more descriptive in your ... Read More