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Robert AllisonOctober 12, 2012 4

You've all heard about the recent meningitis outbreak, right? Being a data-guy and a map-guy, I went looking for maps related to the outbreak. I found the following map on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. It shows the states that received the recalled drug used in epidurals (for back

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Angela HallOctober 8, 2012 0

Go on a date with SAS BI Dashboard, part 1

Don't give up on the dating game. Just because there is no prompt type specifically for dates, it can still be accomplished with some stored process matchmaking. BI Dashboard offers a dynamic prompt indicator which provides the ultimate flexibility in developing prompt based reports and dashboards. The dynamic prompt indicator

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 18, 2012 7

It be "International Talk Like a Pirate" day - Arrr!!!

Avast Mateys! Did you know that International Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up?!? (September 19) Here's the official website, if you'd like more info. And what better way to get into the spirit of things than to use SAS/GRAPH to plot some real pirate data - Arrrr!!! Here's

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Insurance

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Angela HallSeptember 17, 2012 9

Always learning something new, two awesome Enterprise Guide tricks

Who says anyone is an expert at something? I definitely do not when it comes to SAS (well, anything for that matter). Each time I sit through a presentation at a conference I learn something new. During the SAS Western Users Conference, fondly know as WUSS, this month I learned

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Angela HallSeptember 12, 2012 5

Defining a custom color palette for BI Dashboard bar charts

Out of the box, the simple bar graph uses the same color for each bar. A frequent request from users is to define a standard color palette for the dashboard indicators so distinct bars are the same color in each indicator or from refresh to refresh. With most dashboard tricks,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 6, 2012 3

What cities have the worst (and best) commute to work?

A while back, I had seen the following map on the CEOs for Cities website. It seemed like an interesting topic and an interesting map, but I just couldn't grok what their map was saying ... So I decided to download the data and create my own map with SAS. I

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Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 28, 2012 0

Browser wars: And the winner is ...

Have you ever tried to put something on the Web, and then it looks different for other people (or maybe doesn't work at all)? ... And you eventually found that it was because they were using a different browser? That's one of the reasons I like traditional SAS/Graph output -- it's simple

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Communications

Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 10, 2012 13

Do you use SAS for analytics and Excel for graphs?

Do you use SAS for analytics and Microsoft Excel for graphs? Why not use SAS for your graphs too?!? Then you could completely automate the entire process in one SAS program, with no manual steps! A lot of people use Excel to create their graphs because "it's what they know." What if somebody

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Angela HallAugust 8, 2012 3

Testing recommendations for SAS BI Dashboard & SAS Web Report Studio

With limited time and budget, you can still thoroughly test SAS reports built in SAS BI Dashboard and SAS Web Report Studio by considering how all the tools were used to build the end report. An understanding of the functionality within each part of the chain from raw data to

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