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Robert AllisonJune 3, 2015 7

What's the most popular baby name in your state?

A couple of years ago, I blogged about the most popular baby names in the US over the past 100 years. This time, I focus on the most recent year, and take it to the state level! But before we get started, here's a picture of my friend Jennifer's daughter,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 2, 2015 2

Creating a map using death data

I guess most of us have a morbid curiosity about how we're going to die ... which is probably why Francis Boscoe's Causes of Death map went viral (no pun intended, of course!). This blog post shows how to create such a map... But first, to lighten up the mood a bit

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Health Care | Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 29, 2015 2

Cars versus drivers: Who's safer?

A recent news report shows an unexpected spike in traffic fatalities here in the US in 2015. This got me wondering what the data shows ... for the past 100 years or so... Driving was a lot more dangerous in the early days. If you were in a wreck, you

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Insurance | Travel

Analytics

Mark StevensMay 28, 2015 8

How analytics saved the break room coffee machine

SAS software is used around the world in some of the most sophisticated ways, like ATM fraud detection and cancer research. But recently, I used it for a practical, and much needed, task -- replacing our break room coffee machine. Now, this is no ordinary coffee machine. It also makes

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 26, 2015 11

Do Italians really drink less alcohol than Americans?

I saw an interesting graph on dadaviz.com that claimed Italians had gone from drinking twice as much as Americans in 1970, to less than Americans in recent years. The data analyst in me just had to "independently verify" this factoid ... But before I get into the technical part of this

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 19, 2015 9

Locating Mount St. Helens using a SAS map

Mount St. Helens volcano here in the US had a big eruption 35 years ago this week! Do you know exactly where it is located? Perhaps this SAS map can help... As you might have guessed, I'm a big fan of the awesome power of nature (hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes, and

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Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 15, 2015 8

A little fun with UFO sightings data

As a kid, I was always intrigued with UFO sightings and I guess I'm still a little that way ... therefore how could I not jump at the opportunity to explore some UFO sightings data! I guess "UFO" doesn't necessarily imply that something is an alien space ship - just

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMay 12, 2015 0

Creating your own customized graphs for SAS analytic procedures

In recent releases of SAS, you can use Output Delivery System graphics or 'ODS graphics on' to produce nice graphical output for most of the analytic procedures. These default graphs are nice, but when you want your graphs to look "a certain way" SAS also lets you create your own custom graphs!

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 7, 2015 10

U.S. federal government is shrinking

I was surprised to find that the size of the U.S. federal government is smaller today, than in the past many decades - let's graph it out, so it's easy to analyze... The way I got started on this little adventure was via Jishai's graph on dadaviz.com. Here's a snapshot

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Government

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonApril 27, 2015 0

A closer look at the U.S. income inequality graphs

I've seen a lot of recent news articles purporting income inequality in the U.S. ("the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer") ... and I wondered if the graphs were a true/unbiased representation of the data. For example, I recently saw a couple of graphs in an article on the

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Banking | Government

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