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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonFebruary 19, 2019 0

Graphing cardiovascular disease mortality data

I have written several blog posts about longevity, and here is another one related to that topic. Cardiovascular disease (cvd) is one of the more common causes of death, and I was wondering how those numbers have changed over time. Are fewer people dying from cvd, or are more people

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Martin MinceyFebruary 15, 2019 0

Embed scalable graphics using the ODS HTML5 destination

Beginning with SAS® 9.4, you can embed graphics output within HTML output using the ODS HTML5 destination. This technique works with SAS/GRAPH® procedures (such as GPLOT and GCHART), SG procedures (such as SGPLOT and SGRENDER), and when you create graphics output with ODS Graphics enabled. Most (if not all) existing

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonFebruary 14, 2019 0

Analyzing age and gender distribution, with a pyramid chart

With the US census coming in 2020, I've decided to sharpen my skills at graphing census data. And today I'm working on creating a population pyramid chart to analyze the age and gender distribution. Follow along if you'd like to see how to create such a chart ... or jump

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonFebruary 8, 2019 0

How to show recessions on your SGplot line graph

Plotting just your data often helps you gain insight into how it has changed over time. But what if you want to know why it changed? Although correlation does not always imply causation, it is often useful to graph multiple things together, that might logically be related. For example, recessions

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Scott HicksFebruary 8, 2019 0

Fundamentals of SAS Visual Analytics geo maps

Creating a map with SAS Visual Analytics begins with the geographic variable. This blog post explains the first type of geography variable that VA supports: predefined. Future posts will cover the other two types of geography variables in VA: custom coordinates and custom polygons.

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SGMAP using DENSITY=3

Kelly MillsFebruary 4, 2019 0

Use PROC GREMOVE and GREDUCE for Nice SGMAP Regions

In the previous Graphically Speaking blog for PROC SGMAP, you used PROC GPROJECT so map regions would match OpenStreetMap and Esri background images. This time, the same British Columbia shapefile is used with: PROC GREMOVE to remove unwanted boundary lines PROC GREDUCE to reduce map data PROC GPROJECT to zoom

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Frederik Vandenberghe

Frederik VandenbergheFebruary 1, 2019 0

Installing SAS Viya Azure virtual machines with a single click

I don't know about you, but when I read challenges like: Detecting hidden heart failure before it harms an individual Can SAS Viya AI help to digitalize pension management? How to recommend your next adventure based on travel data How to use advanced analytics in building a relevant next best

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 31, 2019 0

Creating a fancy life expectancy chart, with SGplot

You might have noticed I've been trying out SAS ODS Graphics lately, whereas in the past I mainly used SAS/Graph for my samples. In this blog post I step you through my latest fancy SGplot graph - hopefully you'll learn some tips & techniques, as you follow along. (I don't

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 29, 2019 0

Visualizing unemployment data, with a band plot

Many areas of the US are experiencing record low unemployment. This is great at the national level, and also great at a personal level (for example, I now have fewer unemployed friends asking to borrow money!) But just how low is the US unemployment rate, and how does it compare

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 24, 2019 0

Re-creating a Hans Rosling graph animation, with SAS!

As we're approaching the anniversary of Hans Rosling's passing, I fondly remember his spectacular graphical presentations comparing the wealth and health of nations around the world. He certainly raised the bar for data visualization, and his animated charts inspired me to work even harder to create similar visualizations! What better way

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Data Visualization

Dan HeathJanuary 17, 2019 0

Drillable Titles and Footnotes

Tool tip and drill-down functionality is commonly used to explore plot data in a graph, particularly on the web. Occasionally, you might even have the need to add this drill-down functionality to your titles or footnotes, possibly to reference more details or source information. The TITLE and FOOTNOTE statements in

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 17, 2019 0

Using International characters in a SAS graph

They say "The Sun never sets on the SAS Empire" ... and it's true! There are SAS users all over the world, and SAS output & results could be in any language. Therefore, if you're a SAS programmer, you might need to know how to create SAS graphs with international

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 15, 2019 0

Let's track the falling gasoline prices!

When I fill up my daily-driver Prius, the price of gasoline isn't that important. But when I occasionally take a trip in my V8 Suburban, I pay a lot more attention! Therefore I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that gasoline prices have been falling. How much have they fallen,

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Melanie CareyJanuary 14, 2019 0

How SAS Visual Analytics' automated analysis takes customer care to the next level - Part 3

In the second of three posts on using automated analysis with SAS Visual Analytics, we used the automated analysis object to get a better understanding of our variable of interest, X-Sell and Up-sell Flag, and how it is influenced by other variables in our dataset. In this third and final

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJanuary 14, 2019 0

How to align the Y and Y2 axes in PROC SGPLOT

When you overlay two series in PROC SGPLOT, you can either plot both series on the same axis or you can assign one series to the main axis (Y) and another to a secondary axis (Y2). If you use the Y and Y2 axes, they are scaled independently by default,

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British Columbia with projected values on OpenStreetMap

Kelly MillsJanuary 10, 2019 0

Use PROC GPROJECT to Project Choromap Regions Successfully in PROC SGMAP

Sometimes it is difficult to know what parameters to use when projecting map data onto Esri or OpenStreetMaps in PROC SGMAP. The shapefile .PRJ file contains everything you need to set these parameters in PROC GPROJECT. In a previous blog, you saw how to lookup projections at a web site,

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Process flow diagram shows how to resample data to create a bootstrap distribution.

Rick WicklinJanuary 9, 2019 0

10 posts from 2018 that deserve a second look

Numbers don't lie, but sometimes they don't reveal the full story. Last week I wrote about the most popular articles from The DO Loop in 2018. The popular articles are inevitably about elementary topics in SAS programming or statistics because those topics have broad appeal. However, I also write about

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning | Programming Tips

Melanie CareyJanuary 7, 2019 0

How SAS Visual Analytics' automated analysis takes customer care to the next level - Part 2

In the first of three posts on using automated analysis with SAS Visual Analytics, we explored a typical visualization designed to give telco customer care workers guidance on customers most receptive to upgrade their plans. While the analysis provided some insight, it lacked analytical depth -- and that increases the risk of wasting time, energy and

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Data Visualization

Dan HeathJanuary 4, 2019 0

This Doesn't Make "Cents" -- A Question about Formatting

Recently, I was asked about a formatting situation where the DOLLAR8.2 format was specified on the data column, but the cents on the axis showed showed just one digit instead of the two requested by the format. data example; input time money; datalines; 1 1 2 1.5 3 2 4

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Melanie CareyJanuary 2, 2019 0

How SAS Visual Analytics' automated analysis takes customer care to the next level - Part 1

You're the operations director for a major telco's contact center. Your customer-care workers enjoy solving problems. Turning irate callers into fans makes their day. They also hate flying blind. They've been begging you for deeper insight into customer data to better serve their callers. They want to know which customers

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeDecember 20, 2018 0

A Graphical Journey

The ODS Graphics software, first released with SAS 9.2, supported creating graphs directly from statistical procedures. Prior to this, very few statistical procedures created graphs on their own, and in most cases creating graphs was a post process or creating the graphs from the saved data using SAS/GRAPH procedures. With

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinDecember 19, 2018 0

Visualize a mixed model that has repeated measures or random coefficients

I regularly see questions on a SAS discussion forum about how to visualize the predicted values for a mixed model that has at least one continuous variable, a categorical variable, and possibly an interaction term. SAS procedures such as GLM, GENMOD, and LOGISTIC can automatically produce plots of the predicted

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 17, 2018 0

Create a probability plot in SAS

Many data analysts use a quantile-quantile plot (Q-Q plot) to graphically assess whether data can be modeled by a probability distribution such as the normal, lognormal, or gamma distribution. You can use the QQPLOT statement in PROC UNIVARIATE to create a Q-Q plot for about a dozen common distributions. However,

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonDecember 13, 2018 0

Examining data about North Carolina's absentee ballots

Certain North Carolina counties have been in the news lately, for suspected election fraud involving absentee ballots in the 2018 election. Let's analyze the voter registration and absentee ballot data, to see if we can detect anything suspicious! In order to definitively determine whether fraud & illegal activity occurred, investigators

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SGMAP SCATTER Data Limited by the GEODIST Function

Kelly MillsDecember 11, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP using CSV Files, GINSIDE and GEODIST to Plot Places of Interest

As mentioned in other PROC SGMAP blogs, several SAS/GRAPH procedures have been moved to 9.4M6 Base SAS to be used with PROC SGMAP. You can use these to create PROC SGMAP output even when using the free SAS University edition. In this blog you will use the: IMPORT procedure for

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonDecember 11, 2018 0

Plotting snow data for your area

We got our first 'big' snow of the season here at the SAS headquarters in Cary, NC ... therefore I thought this would be a great time to dig into some snow data! Follow along and pick up some tips & tricks as I plot our snow data - and

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Gerhard SvolbaDecember 11, 2018 0

Wien und die Donau – Paradies für Data Science und die Big Data Flut

Wien und die Donau: Zahlreiche Lieder, Geschichten und Filme dokumentieren die innige Beziehung zwischen der österreichischen Hauptstadt und „ihrem“ Fluss. Das war aber nicht immer so: Über Jahrhunderte stellte das Gewässer eine große Bedrohung für die Stadt dar – und es erforderte beträchtliche Ingenieurskunst, um die Donauauen in ein echtes

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 10, 2018 0

Visualize Christmas songs

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! -Buddy in Elf In the Christmas movie Elf (2003), Jovie (played by Zooey Deschanel) must "spread Christmas cheer" to help Santa. She chooses to sing "Santa Claus is coming to town," and soon all of New

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeDecember 7, 2018 0

The SGPIE Procedure - Part 2

The SAS 9.4M6 software includes a new SGPIE procedure (preproduction) as introduced in the recent article - The SGPIE Procedure. In that article, I described the basic features of the two statements supported in the procedure, the PIE and the DONUT, with some examples. It is my humble opinion that

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverDecember 6, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Decision management, machine learning, and digital marketing

A typical day brings countless business decisions that affect everything from profitability to customer experience. What is a reasonable price point? Which audience segments should I personalize offers for? When should I recommend specific content earlier in a customer journey? Daily decisions like these can alter the trajectory of a

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