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Robert AllisonMarch 13, 2020 6

Tracking the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States

Everyone's thinking about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and wondering if there are any cases near where they live. I recently used SAS Software to create a dashboard with a world map showing which countries had reported cases. And now that the virus has spread around the world, a world/country-level

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Health Care

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonFebruary 26, 2020 9

How long does it take to paddle a canoe 100 miles?

I'm a bit of a boat paddling enthusiast, as you might have guessed from some of my previous paddling blog posts. The amount of exertion in race-paddling is similar to running - the longest race I've paddled in a race so far was 13 miles (half-marathon distance). But in the

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Debpriya SarkarFebruary 24, 2020 3

Ridgeline Plots using SGPLOT

Ridgeline plots are useful for visualizing changes in the shapes of distribution over multiple groups or time periods. Let us look at an example of how we can create this plot using the SGPLOT procedure that is part of the ODS Graphics Procedures. For this example, we will plot the

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonFebruary 13, 2020 4

Giving your maps more visual impact!

There are many ways to add more "visual impact" to your maps. Some techniques grab the users' attention, but often don't add anything useful to the message the map is trying to convey (such as 3D tricks, or flashy/gratuitous images and infographics). I encourage you to design maps that have

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Energy & Utilities

Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 3, 2020 46

Improving the Wuhan Coronavirus dashboard

The COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak has been in the news a lot lately, and everyone is probably looking for a quick/easy way to see the data. The best visualization I've seen so far is this dashboard by Johns Hopkins. Here's a screen-capture: But before we dive into the data analysis, let's

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Health Care

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 31, 2020 34

Magnetic north moved 50 miles last year (let's map it!)

I've read several articles that mentioned the north magnetic pole has been moving more in the past few decades, than in the previous few hundred years. And as a Map Guy, I knew I just had to plot this data on a map, and see it for myself! I provide

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Data for Good | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 24, 2020 0

Creating a map to track the coronavirus

The coronavirus has been a big item in the news lately - it's a pneumonia-like illness that has killed several people. It's thought to have started in China, and has spread to several other countries (including at least one case in the U.S.). The World Health Organization says the coronavirus

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Health Care

Data for Good | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 23, 2020 15

How to prepare (your graphs) for flu season

The flu season has started here in the U.S., and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data it has caused 214 deaths in the first week of 2020. Is this number higher, or lower, than usual? When does the flu season start, and how long does

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Health Care

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 15, 2020 8

Where's the best place to retire, in the U.S.?

As I get older, a few of my buddies are starting to retire. And this makes me think about my own retirement (not that I'm anywhere near old enough to retire, mind you!) Therefore when I saw a list of the "Best & Worst Cities for Retiring" it caught my

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Robert AllisonJanuary 7, 2020 13

Are winters colder in North Carolina, or Canada?

If someone proposes a bet to you, then you should be suspicious that they already know they're going to win. And one frequent topic of such bets is the weather... What if I bet you there's a city in Canada with a warmer average January temperature than Raleigh, NC? You

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