Graphically Speaking

Data Visualization with a focus on SAS ODS Graphics
Data Visualization
Sanjay Matange 4
Beer, diapers and heat map

The parable of beer and diapers is often related when teaching data mining techniques.  Whether fact or fiction, a Heat Map is useful to view the claimed associations.  A co-worker recently enquired about possible ways to display associations or dependency between variables.  One option is to show the dependency as a node

Data Visualization
Sanjay Matange 4
Comparative density plots

Recently a user posted a question on the SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics Communities page on how to plot the normal density curves for two classification levels in the same graph. We have often seen examples of a  distribution plot of one variable using a histogram with normal and kernel density curves.  Here is a simple example: Code Snippet:

Data Visualization
Dan Heath 0
A (tool)tip for band plots

Recently, I had a discussion with a user concerning the volume of imagemap data generated for an interactive,  web-based visual contain a large number of graphs. The large amount of imagemap data was causing problems with the current version of their web browser. The graphs consisted of either bar charts

Data Visualization
Sanjay Matange 7
Nested graphs

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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