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Friday, October 16. 2009

You can use it for evil, too

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?

Posted by Chris Hemedinger in SAS dummy at 07:43 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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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.

#1 Bill Abramovitz (Homepage) on 2009-10-16 08:19 (Reply)

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"!

#2 Robert Allison on 2009-10-16 15:03 (Reply)

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Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in SAS R&D. He's part of the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. He's also co-author of the popular SAS for Dummies book and moderator of the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum.

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