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Robert AllisonAugust 11, 2015 4

There's big money in professional sports these days - we're talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you... I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world's most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 4, 2015 10

Marriage and divorce in the US: What do the numbers say?

I've heard lots of people quote statistics about marriage & divorce, but the experts don't always agree on what the data means. So I decided to run the data through a SAS graphical analysis, and see what the numbers say ... Before we get into the numbers though, let's have a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 3, 2015 7

Creating a better graph to show trade deficit

I recently saw a cool graph showing the US import/export trade deficit. But after studying it a bit, I realized I was perceiving it wrong. Follow along in this blog, to find out what the problem was, and how I redesigned the graph to avoid it. I was looking through dadaviz.com

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Government

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 31, 2015 5

Map of US domestic cannabis eradication

In my quest for interesting data to graph, I found some Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) data on US domestic cannabis eradication. Does the data say anything interesting? Read on to find out! ... While doing some searches for other data, I happened across a table on the DEA website titled

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 29, 2015 5

50 million illegal aliens apprehended in the US

There's been quite a bit of controversy about the number of undocumented immigrants in the US lately - for example, Ann Coulter claims that number is 30 million, whereas others claim it's about 11 million (readers of my blog are data-savvy, and would dig into the details of such claims,

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Government

Analytics

Nele CogheJuly 27, 2015 3

How the Tour de France and SAS Factory Miner relate

July has been an exciting month for me. Not only because of the historic Tour de France this year... but even more because this month the new offering SAS Factory Miner was officially released! With SAS Factory Miner you can run predictive models in an automated model tournament environment to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 23, 2015 14

Only brush the teeth you want to keep

When I was a kid, I remember a motivational poster on my dentist's wall that said "You don't have to brush all your teeth -- only the ones you want to keep." That poster really made me think, and brush my teeth! And now that I'm a data-analyst adult, I think

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics

Maggie MillerJuly 22, 2015 2

Explaining analytics with Jeff Zeanah

One of the most important skills for data scientists and business analytical professionals is communications. If decision makers and managers don't understand what the numbers mean -- results won't turn into action. Jeff Zeanah, President of Z Solutions, Inc. has been presenting on the topic of speaking “analytics” for many

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 20, 2015 9

Analysis of serial killings in the US

I recently came across some very interesting data on serial killings ... but it was in tabular/text form. This seemed like an invitation for me to create some graphs that make it easier to understand the data. It seems many people have a morbid curiosity about serial killers. For example, some

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 7, 2015 13

Where are different languages spoken?

As you travel around the world, do you know where English, French, Spanish, and Arabic are spoken? This blog will help you quickly answer that question, with some cool SAS maps! But first, here's a picture of my friend Joy posing beside an interesting sign during one of her international

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