Bar chart with log response axis

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|April 25, 2012

Creating bar charts with log response axis has come up a few times in the past few days.  Before we look into how we could do this, it would be worth pointing out the considerable opinion in the blogosphere against use of log response axes for bar charts.  See BizIntelGuru and [...]

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Bar chart on interval axis

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|April 16, 2012

Recently, a user asked about creating a Bar Chart of Value by Date, where the dates are displayed on a scaled interval axis.   Consider this simulated data set of value by date and treatment shown below.  This data set only has one value for each date and treatment combination. We can use the VBAR statement [...]

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Cluster groups

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|March 30, 2012

The topic of cluster groups comes up often.  By cluster group I am referring to the feature in bar charts where the group values are displayed side by side. With SAS 9.3, SG Procedures support stack or cluster grouping for Bar Charts and overlay or cluster grouping for all other [...]

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Let them eat pie

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|March 26, 2012

ODS Graphics system was initially motivated by the need for high quality graphs for SAS Base, STAT, and other analytical procedures.  Use of SG Procedures, ODS Graphics Designer and GTL by users too has initially focused on analytical graphs.  But just like wheels on carryon bags that started for the specific needs of flight [...]

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Nested graphs

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|January 26, 2012

Here are a couple of bar charts showing the city mileage of cars by Type and Origin using the SGPLOT procedure from the sashelp.cars dataset. title ‘Vehicle Mileage by Type’; proc sgplot data=cars; format mpg_city 4.1; vbar type / response=mpg_city stat=mean datalabel; xaxis display=(nolabel); run; title ‘Counts by Country’; proc sgplot [...]

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Panel graph with axis-aligned statistics

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|January 5, 2012

Following up on the theme of graphs commonly used in many applications, here is another one that displays a horizontal bar chart with multiple data columns aligned with the bars.   Recently at WUSS, a user stopped by asking how to create just such a graph.  While this user wanted something more complex [...]

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