GTL Layouts

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|February 12, 2013

The Graph Template Language (GTL) provides you the ability to create complex graphical layouts. We have seen how to create a regular grid of cells based on one or more classification variables using the SGPANEL procedure.   Each cell contains the same type of plot.  This topic was covered in Dan’s article on [...]

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Forest Plot with Subgroups

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|September 30, 2012

During SGF 2012, I had conversations with many SAS users who wanted to create Forest Plots.  However, there was one new twist.  The study names were subgrouped by categories like ‘Age’, ‘Sex’, etc., with multiple entries under each subgroup.  The name of each study within the subgrouped was indented to indicate [...]

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Compact Scatter Plot Matrix

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|August 19, 2012

The Scatter Plot Matrix is a great tool that provides a quick visual of potential associations between variables.  This may provide the analyst some hints on how to proceed with the analysis. Matrix of lab values for liver function tests are commonly used in clinical research.  The SGSCATTER procedure provides an easy way [...]

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Broken Y-Axis with SAS 9.2

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|June 3, 2012

In the previous post on Broken Y-Axis, I reviewed different ways to display data as a Bar Chart, where the response values for some categories are many orders of magnitude larger than the other values.  These tall bars force  the display of other values to be squeezed down thus making it harder to compare [...]

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Broken Y-Axis

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|May 31, 2012

Often we want to display data as a bar chart where a few observations have large values compared to the rest.  Comparison between the smaller values becomes hard as the small bars are squeezed by the tall bars.  Here is an example data, and a bar chart showing the data. The large values [...]

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Dual category variable graph

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|May 25, 2012

This post is a result of an intriguing question posed by a user on the SAS communities’ page.  How to create a bar chart where the category is a combination of two variables var_1 and var_2 (each with values of ‘+’ and ‘-’), and get a X axis that shows each [...]

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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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The more the merrier

Sanjay Matange
Sanjay Matange|January 16, 2012

Often it is useful to view multiple responses by a common independent variable all in the same plot.  SGPLOT procedure and GTL support the ability to view two responses, one each on the Y and Y2 axes by one independent variable (X) in one graph.  Yes, you can also have X [...]

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