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Robert AllisonMarch 31, 2017 1

How about a free eBook on data visualization using SAS!

If you're into data visualization, here's something that might interest you - a free eBook showing several ways to use SAS to visually analyze your data. (Did I mention it's FREE?!?!) We've picked juicy chapters from several books and upcoming books (and a few other sources), to show you what

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 29, 2017 10

Plotting markers on a map at zip code locations, using GMap or SGplot

Users frequently ask how to plot their data as markers on a map. There are several ways to do this using SAS software. If you're a Visual Analytics user, you can do it using a point-and-click interface. But if you're a coder, you might need a little help... In this

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Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 27, 2017 8

Let's analyze 32 years of basketball tournament data!

Here in the US, it's the nationwide men's college basketball tournament season! Therefore let's use some data from the previous years' tournaments to sharpen our analytics & visualization skills... But before we get started, I must mention (brag?) that my alma mater, NC State University, won this tournament in 1983.

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 23, 2017 3

Bringing the heat! - Creating heat maps with proc sgplot ...

If you're a fan of SAS' ODS Graphics, you probably know that it does pretty much everything except geographical maps. But it's flexible enough that you can "fake it 'till you make it"! This example describes how to fake a geographical (choropleth) heat map using Proc SGplot polygons. In my

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Government | Health Care

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 21, 2017 8

How to create a 'pretty' map with Proc SGplot

If you give an artist some tools, they can create a pretty picture. Sure, they might have a preferred tool - but they can probably do a pretty decent job no matter what you give them (paint, colored pencils, watercolor, charcoal, etc). And creating pretty graphs in SAS is no

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Government | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 16, 2017 4

Using SAS to track UFOs on Mars!

When we send spacecraft from Earth to Mars, do the Martians consider them to be UFOs? I might not be able to answer that question definitively ... but I do have some really cool graphs showing the data for all those missions to Mars! You might remember a previous blog

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Government | Life Sciences | Travel

Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Cindy PuryearMarch 13, 2017 5

Reuse a Graph with Different Data

This post is from SAS Author Sanjay Matange. It's part of our SAS Author Tips series. Do you have a complex multi-cell graph created in ODS Graphics Designer that you’d like to reuse with different data? Ideally, you’d like to change the data without having to change the plots in each cell. The

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 8, 2017 3

What's your next move? (analytics for a chess tournament)

The NC Scholastic Chess Championship is coming up this weekend, and my buddy Michael Thomas asked if I might could create a few graphs to help analyze the event data. How could I pass up an opportunity like that?!?! Read along, and find out what graphs I created, and the

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 28, 2017 6

Analytics - helping your 'dots' tell their story

Does your data just look like a bunch of dots? Would you like to bring those dots to life so they can tell their story? This example shows how to make some voter-registration dots a bit more lifelike, so you can see what they're saying. You can apply the same

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Government

Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 23, 2017 4

How to add roads to your SAS maps

Have you been using the SAS/Graph Gmap procedure to plot your data on maps for years, but never knew you could add roads to your maps?!? Follow along in this blog post, and I'll teach you how... But before we get started, here's a picture of a nice aerial view

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Government

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