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Frank SilvaSeptember 9, 2019 0

The Memphis Grizzlies have the best NBA arena. Here's why

If you consume NBA content through social media, then you know just how active that online community is. Basketball arguments and ‘hot takes’ on the Internet are about as commonplace as Michael Jordan playing golf instead of running a functional NBA front office. I wondered if NBA fans happened to

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

SAS SoftwareSeptember 9, 2019 0

SAS Viya: Package for Python API for deep learning and image processing: DLPy

Editor's Note: This article was translated and edited by SAS USA and was originally written by Makoto Unemi. The original text is here. SAS previously provided SAS Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer (SWAT), a package for using SAS Viya functions from various general-purpose programming languages such as Python. In addition

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinSeptember 9, 2019 0

Anchor points and rotated text in PROC SGPLOT

The TEXT statement in PROC SGPLOT supports the ROTATE= option to rotate the specified text. It is worth knowing how the ROTATE= option interacts with the POSITION= option, which determines the anchor point at which the text is positioned. Briefly, the text is positioned FIRST, then the rotation occurs. The

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 5, 2019 0

Use cosine similarity to make recommendations

When you order an item online, the website often recommends other items based on your purchase. In fact, these kinds of "recommendation engines" contributed to the early success of companies like Amazon and Netflix. SAS uses a recommender engine to suggest articles on the SAS Support Communities. Although recommender engines

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 3, 2019 0

How to plot hurricane data on a map

As we're in the thick of hurricane season, I'm sure some of my fellow map-makers are wanting to create their own custom hurricane maps. In this blog post, I step you through the process, so you'll know where to find all the pieces, and how to put them together. I

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 3, 2019 0

Cosine similarity of vectors

An important application of the dot product (inner product) of two vectors is to determine the angle between the vectors. If u and v are two vectors, then cos(θ) = (u ⋅ v) / (|u| |v|) You could apply the inverse cosine function if you wanted to find θ in

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Cindy WangAugust 28, 2019 0

How to Calculate Hull Moving Average in SAS Visual Analytics

Moving Average (MA) is a common indicator in stocks, securities and futures trading in financial markets to gauge momentum and confirm trends. MA is often used to smooth out short-term fluctuations and show long-term trends. But most MA indicators have big lags in signaling a changing trend. To be faster

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinAugust 28, 2019 0

Annotate features of a schematic box plot in SGPLOT

A SAS programmer asked an intriguing question on the SAS Support Communities: Can you use SAS to create a graph that shows how the elements in a box-and-whiskers plot relate to the data? The SAS documentation has several examples that explain how to read a box plot. One of the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

% of population registered to vote by state

Frank SilvaAugust 27, 2019 0

Examining voter registration data with SAS Visual Analytics

I was born in a country (Brazil) where voting is mandatory. Most of my family still lives there, and now that I live in the US, they ask me about American politics all the time. One thing that often catches them by surprise is that not only is voting not

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 26, 2019 0

Where to take a scenic drive in each of the 50 US states!

Summer is winding down, and cooler fall weather is just around the corner. You might soon be able to take a pleasant drive with the windows down, while enjoying the scenery. But where should you go? What are the most scenic roads for that drive? Read along to see a

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 19, 2019 0

Got student loan debt?

It's that time of year again - the summer is coming to a close, and students are heading to college... And starting the clock ticking on accumulating that student loan debt! Before we get started, here's a little something to set the stage for this topic. This is a picture

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Banking | Education

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 19, 2019 0

A skeptic's guide to statistics in the media

News outlets share stats and graphs that they source from public data. It takes data literacy skills to critique the stats you see, and investigate more.

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Data Visualization

A DennisAugust 16, 2019 0

SAS has a guide to help when you need to create a graph and don't know where to start!

You have data that you want to visualize. You need to explore your graphing options using SAS, but you don’t know where to start. Help is here with the recently revised Base SAS guide, Introduction to SAS® Platform Graphing. This guide is helpful for novice SAS users as well as

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 15, 2019 0

Where can you own a pet kangaroo in the US?

I saw an interesting kangaroo map on reddit, and although the data was deemed "not entirely reliable" it seemed like a fun topic. And also a good exercise to try out the map labeling capabilities in the new Proc SGmap choropleth maps in SAS! For those of you not really

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Scott HicksAugust 9, 2019 0

Esri integration with SAS Visual Analytics: Geocoding

Geocoding is no longer limited to just Base SAS. You can also geocode from within Visual Analytics, thanks to the integration with the Esri geocoding api. This feature is part of the Esri Premium agreement, and became available in VA 8.3.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 7, 2019 0

Mapping the drone registration data (for NC)

Flying drones was a new & exciting hobby, and very cool fad a few years ago. In recent years, the drone manufacturers have added some really nice features to make the drones easier to fly and more capable ... but the government also added some new rules that have curbed

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Work & Life at SAS

Anjelica CummingsAugust 5, 2019 0

Combining the power of analytics and art

A technology company that places a high value on art. Beyond SAS’ workplace culture, benefits and leadership in the analytics market, it was the company’s emphasis and appreciation toward the arts that first caught Jessica Peter’s attention. Jessica first learned about SAS from the comfort of her living room. During

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 25, 2019 0

The *real* country names in Europe

Have you ever had one of those moments when something you had assumed was true all your life, turned out not to be true? I remember that happening in my high school Spanish class (taught by the wonderful Señor Shoaf), when he let us in on a little secret -

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 22, 2019 0

Travel around the world, always in perfect weather!

The guys over at reservations.com recently posted a really interesting idea, and a map to go along with it! They worked out an itinerary where you could spend one year traveling around the world (staying in a different place each week), and always be in a comfortable temperature around 70-75°

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzJuly 19, 2019 0

Ring of fire: Visualizing 5,000 years of solar eclipses

When a new Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, the Moon can cast a shadow on certain regions of the Earth. This natural phenomenon creates a solar eclipse, meaning the Moon covers, or eclipses, your view of the Sun if you're in that region. No surprise that in

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 18, 2019 0

Fun with Mandelbrot sets and Proc SGplot

A few years ago Mandelbrot sets and fractals were all the rage! (Am I showing my age? Hahaha!) I thought creating some plots of this type of data would be a good way to sharpen my SAS programming skills, and it would make a nice/interesting example to help teach people

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 15, 2019 0

Plotting data on a Census block map

As the 2020 Census approaches, I'm getting my code ready to plot the data! And a question I often hear is "Can you use SAS software to plot data on a Census block map?" Rather than tell you 'yes', let me show you 'yes' :) Preparing the map First I

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 15, 2019 0

Create a discrete heat map with PROC SGPLOT

Heat maps have many uses. You can use a heat map to visualize correlation matrices, to visualize longitudinal data ("lasagna plots"), and to visualize counts in any two-dimensional table. As of SAS 9.4m3, you can create heat maps in SAS by using the HEATMAP and HEATMAPPARM statements in PROC SGPLOT.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 11, 2019 0

Plotting California earthquake data!

Earthquakes have been in the news lately - in particular, two very strong earthquakes that recently hit California. Exactly where did they hit? ... Let's plot it on a map! But before we get busy analyzing the California data, here's a picture to get you in the mood for studying

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 10, 2019 0

Find the center of each cell in a mosaic plot

I recently showed how to create an annotation data set that will overlay cell counts or percentages on a mosaic plot. A mosaic plot is a visual representation of a cross-tabulation of observed frequencies for two categorical variables. The mosaic plot with cell counts is shown to the right. The

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 8, 2019 0

Which counties in the US are still 'dry'?

We just had the big July 4th holiday weekend here in the US. And as with many holidays, there was a lot of drinking. Which got me thinking/wondering ... which counties do not allow alcohol to be sold (ie, which counties are 'dry')? And it seemed like a question that

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Government | Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 8, 2019 0

How to add an annotation to a mosaic plot in SAS

The mosaic plot is a graphical visualization of a frequency table. In previous articles, I showed how to create a mosaic plot in SAS by using PROC FREQ and how to define a template in the Graph Template Language (GTL) by using the MOSAICPARM statement. This article shows how to

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunJuly 5, 2019 0

비즈니스 인텔리전스로 진화하는 임상시험 프로세스: SAS코리아 ‘제약산업의 데이터 분석과 리포트 시각화’ 세미나

SAS코리아가 6월 20일 삼성동 코엑스 인터컨티넨탈 호텔에서 국내 주요 제약 및 임상시험수탁기관(CRO) 산업 관계자를 대상으로 ‘제약산업의 데이터 분석과 리포트 시각화: SAS 분석 프레임워크 소개와 활용 방안 및 시각화 데모’ 세미나를 성황리에 개최했습니다. SAS는 이번 세미나에서 데이터 분석 인사이트에 기반한 제약 기업의 신규 비즈니스 창출 방안과 글로벌 기업의 선진 사례를 통한

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 3, 2019 0

Can you choose an SUV based on MPG?

I think it's time to replace my 2008 Prius. It has served me well, been basically maintenance-free, and gotten good gas mileage ... so, why not just get a newer Prius? Well, I've got the itch to get back into an SUV for my daily driver (I had a Bronco

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Energy & Utilities

Data Visualization

Rick WicklinJuly 1, 2019 0

Visualize race times in SAS

Math and statistics are everywhere, and I always rejoice when I spot a rather sophisticated statistical idea "in the wild." For example, I am always pleased when I see a graph that shows the distribution of race times in a typical race (such as a 5K), as shown to the

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