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You can use it for evil, too

By Chris Hemedinger on The SAS Dummy October 16, 2009

I found this excellent example of What Not To Do on graphjam.com.

I was inspired to see if I could recreate something similar in SAS. You see the result here. Yes, the PIE3D statement is ready to do your bidding. If that's what you really want.

Which slice would you like?

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Chris Hemedinger
Director, SAS User Engagement

+Chris Hemedinger is the Director of SAS User Engagement, which includes our SAS Communities and SAS User Groups. Since 1993, Chris has worked for SAS as an author, a software developer, an R&D manager and a consultant. Inexplicably, Chris is still coasting on the limited fame he earned as an author of SAS For Dummies.

2 Comments

Bill Abramovitz on October 16, 2009 8:19 am

Any chart cab distort the presentation of data, but visuals are a much faster read, especially on the web. I do think it's important to have the underlying data available to, either on the page or as a drill down.
Robert Allison on October 16, 2009 3:03 pm

GraphJam is a very cool site!

Unfortunately, I think some people get-it that GraphJam is (intentionally) full of laughably bad graphs, and they actually use the ideas from the site in their "presentation graphics"!