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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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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