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Dan HeathApril 30, 2022 0

Area Bar Charts using SGPLOT

The SGPLOT procedure supports a wide variety of plot types that you can use directly or combine together to create more complex graphs. Even with this flexibility, there might be times you run across a graph that you cannot create using one of the standard plot types. An "area" bar

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Charlie ChaseApril 26, 2022 0

Misnomers regarding outliers and their usefulness in statistical modeling

Outliers provide much-needed insights into the actual relationships that influence the demand for products in the marketplace. They are particularly useful when modeling consumer behavior where abnormalities are common occurrences or unforeseen disruptions that impact consumer demand. But why do demand planners cleanse out outliers, when many are not really

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Manufacturing | Retail

Data Visualization

Dan HeathApril 23, 2022 0

Optimizing bar label placement

When creating bar charts, it is very common to display labels with the bars to make it easier to determine the bar values or to provide additional information in the chart. However, these labels can take away valuable data space, particularly if you generate a smaller-sized graph. As you see

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinApril 20, 2022 0

Use a heat map to visualize an ordinal response in longitudinal data

Recently, I showed how to use a heat map to visualize measurements over time for a set of patients in a longitudinal study. The visualization is sometimes called a lasagna plot because it presents an alternative to the usual spaghetti plot. A reader asked whether a similar visualization can be

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Data Visualization

Diana MarisApril 15, 2022 0

Three trends that expand the reach of analytics & BI insights

Data visualization is a critical way for anyone to turn endless rows of data into easy-to-understand results through dynamic and understandable visuals. Whether your favorite visualization is a pie chart, a geographic map, or relies on natural language, showing the insights that empower you to make more informed decisions is a better way to do data-driven business. Analyst firms say that SAS has market-leading data visualization. This helps users across the globe find insights in their data using new and exciting trends in data visualization.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

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Nicole BallApril 5, 2022 0

The AggregateTable operator… It’s the bee’s knees!

Have you ever heard something referred to as the bee’s knees? Most likely the person uttering that expression meant that it was truly amazing and extraordinary. Maybe you stopped and pondered the origin of the phrase. Well wonder no more! In the 1920s in the United States, people were obsessed

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinApril 4, 2022 0

Modify an ODS style to change the missing-value color

Oh, no! Your boss just told you to change the way that SAS displays certain features in graphs, such as missing values. But you have a library of hundreds of SAS programs! Do you need to modify all of your previous programs? Fortunately, the answer is no. SAS provides ODS

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Noura AyacheMarch 30, 2022 0

Prise de décision partagée et transformation personnelle sur le parcours de la Business Value de l'analytique

On s'accorde de plus en plus à dire que presque toutes les entreprises devront recourir davantage à l'analyse. L'utilisation des données n'est plus un luxe, mais une méthode de travail essentielle. C'est un facteur d'efficience, d'efficacité et de centrage sur le client. Pour ceux d'entre nous qui travaillent dans le

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 30, 2022 0

Change the missing-value color by using a range attribute map

In an article about how to visualize missing data in a heat map, I noted that the SAS SG procedures (such as PROC SGPLOT) use the GraphMissing style element to color a bar or tile that represents a missing value. In the HTMLBlue ODS style, the color for missing values

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 9, 2022 0

The Beatty sequence for pi

Did you know that you can use π to partition the positive integers into two disjoint groups? It's not hard. One group is generated by the integer portions of multiples of π. The FLOOR function gives the integer portion of a positive number, so you can write integer that are

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Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization | Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Yinliang WuFebruary 15, 2022 0

Solve the Missionaries and Cannibals Problem with SAS

The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem (MCP) is a classic river-crossing logic puzzle. With SAS, we can solve this problem, visualize the solutions with SAS NETDRAW procedure and generate steps for any MCP problems.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Students & Educators

鈴木徳太February 4, 2022 0

SASのオンライン学習コース「Skill Builder for Students」の紹介（３）Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics編

前回の記事では、学生であれば無料で利用可能なオンライン学習コース「Skill Builder for Students」のProgrammingコースについての概要を紹介しました。今回は引き続きまして、Visual Analytics and Visual Statisticsコースについて紹介していきます。データアナリティクスへの興味・関心は近年急激に増加しています。ただ特に学習を始めた学生では、データアナリティクスと聞くと、どうしても複雑なモデルを組むことや機械学習を実施することだけに意識が向いている印象を受けます。しかしデータアナリティクスの本質はそこではありません。根幹にあるのは意思決定や業績の改善にどれほど貢献できるかです。データの可視化、見える化は学生ですとしばしば軽視されがちな部分ではありますが、意思決定や現状の把握においては非常に有用な有用な方法の一つです。今回紹介するコースではSAS Viyaプラットフォーム上でSAS Visual AnalyticsとSAS Visual Statisticsを使用し、様々な可視化方法、予測モデルについて学習を行います。これらを学習することによってデータに潜む傾向やパターンを把握し、そしていかにその後のリスク管理や傾向の予測などへとつなげていくかといった実践的なデータアナリティクスを学ぶことが可能です。またSAS ViyaはSASによるプログラミング以外にもRやPythonといった他のプログラミング言語をサポートしているため、SASのコーディングができない方であっても不自由なく利用することが可能となっています。 Visual Analytics and Visual Statisticsコースへのアクセスは以下の手順です。 Skill Builder for Studentsへログイン「Learn SAS」というタブをクリック画面中央の「Start Learning」をクリック「Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics」をクリック展開される各種e-learningコースをクリック画面下部にある「enroll」をクリック Visual Analytics and Visual Statisticsコースの概要本コースは SAS Visual Analytics 1 for SAS

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Nicole BallFebruary 1, 2022 0

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… or can you?

When we moved out to the country with our two dogs, our oldest dog Todd suddenly decided he liked to howl…. And he would do so every time we left the house. Maybe it was the country air? Maybe it was a time-lapse gene? Maybe he just wanted to learn

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 3, 2022 0

Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2021

Last year, I wrote almost 100 posts for The DO Loop blog. My most popular articles were about data visualization, statistics and data analysis, and simulation and bootstrapping. If you missed any of these gems when they were first published, here are some of the most popular articles from 2021:

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Joon-Hyung KohDecember 29, 2021 0

AI 기반의 쉽고 간단한 Clinical Data 탐색 및 시각화 #2편

지난 블로그 포스팅 #1편에서는 임상시험 전 과정에 참여한 내.외부 모든 이해관계자가 임상시험 데이터에 쉽게 접근하여 진행 상황을 파악할 수 있도록 지원하는 SAS Visual Analytics 솔루션의 기능을 소개해 드렸습니다. 이번 포스팅에서는 이러한 AI기반의 SAS Visual Analytics 분석 솔루션을 활용하여 임상시험 SDTM 데이터의 탐색 및 시각화 리포트의 활용에 대해 알아보겠습니다. Clinical Data

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization

Joon-Hyung KohDecember 28, 2021 0

AI 기반의 쉽고 간단한 Clinical Data 탐색 및 시각화 #1편

임상시험을 비롯한 모든 업무에서 분석은 필수이며, 점점 고급분석을 필요로하고 있습니다. 이번 블로그 포스팅은 2편으로 나누어 1편에서는 임상시험 전 과정에 참여한 내.외부 모든 이해관계자가 임상시험 데이터에 쉽게 접근하여 진행 상황을 파악할 수 있도록 지원하는 SAS Visual Analytics 솔루션의 기능을 소개합니다. 이어 2편에서는 임상시험의 SDTM 데이터를 활용하여 SAS Visual Analytics 솔루션에 어떻게

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Analytics | Data Visualization

SAS VA with Map and Keywords

Fernanda Molina

Fernanda MolinaDecember 21, 2021 0

Exciting possibilities with text mining for consumer protection

It is increasingly possible to use text analytics to explore different types of data. When a news story this summer caught my eye, I decided to see if I could use SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA) and SAS Visual Analytics (VA) on customer complaints to provide information that might be

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinDecember 15, 2021 0

A statistical palette of Christmas colors

Suppose you are creating a craft project for the Christmas holidays, and you want to choose a palette of Christmas colors to give it a cheery holiday appearance. You could use one of the many online collections of color palettes to choose a Christmas-themed palette. However, I didn't want to

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Data Visualization

Nancy RauschDecember 13, 2021 0

Is it really better to give than to receive? Data science says yes

Active gratitude is the feeling you get when a stranger does something nice for you without expecting anything in return. While both are beneficial for our health, there is a statistically significant, positive correlation between active gratitude and pro-sociality (r = 0.374), that is not present with passive gratitude. In other words, random acts of kindness trigger other random acts of kindness to other people, which is both good for us and good for society.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinDecember 13, 2021 0

A principal component analysis of color palettes

In a previous article, I visualized seven Christmas-themed palettes of colors, as shown to the right. You can see that the palettes include many red, green, and golden colors. Clearly, the colors in the Christmas palettes are not a random sample from the space of RGB colors. Rather, they represent

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 8, 2021 0

Visualize palettes of colors in SAS

In data visualization, colors can represent the values of a variable in a choropleth map, a heatmap, or a scatter plot. But how do you visualize a palette of colors from the RGB or hexadecimal values of the colors? One way is to use the HEATMAPDISC subroutine in SAS/IML, which

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 29, 2021 0

Enhancing a scatter plot

A scatter plot is my go-to graph! It's what I often start with to get a feel for the data ... and I often end up using just a scatter plot. But some scatter plots are better than others ... In this blog post, I create a scatter plot of

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 17, 2021 0

The order of vertices on a convex polygon

In a previous article, I showed how to use theCVEXHULL function in SAS/IML to compute the convex hull of a finite set of planar points. The convex hull is a convex polygon, which is defined by its vertices. To visualize the polygon, you need to know the vertices in sequential

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 15, 2021 0

Two-dimensional convex hulls in SAS

Given a cloud of points in the plane, it can be useful to identify the convex hull of the points. The convex hull is the smallest convex set that contains the observations. For a finite set of points, it is a convex polygon that has some of the points as

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 11, 2021 0

Where do Canadians live?

Canada is a geographically large country, but I've heard that much of the population lives in the small southernmost sections (near the US border). I decided to use my mapping skills, and put that to the test. Follow along, and we'll see what that looks like on a map ...

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Data Visualization

Cindy WangNovember 10, 2021 0

How do people divide their time among daily activities?

SAS' Cindy Wang uses SAS Visual Analytics to explore how people around the world spend their days.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinNovember 10, 2021 0

Create a frequency polygon in SAS

I was recently asked how to create a frequency polygon in SAS. A frequency polygon is an alternative to a histogram that shows similar information about the distribution of univariate data. It is the piecewise linear curve formed by connecting the midpoints of the tops of the bins. The graph

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinNovember 8, 2021 0

The normal approximation and random samples of the binomial distribution

Recall that the binomial distribution is the distribution of the number of successes in a set of independent Bernoulli trials, each having the same probability of success. Most introductory statistics textbooks discuss the approximation of the binomial distribution by the normal distribution. The graph to the right shows that the

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinNovember 3, 2021 0

Add reference lines to a bar chart in SAS

A SAS programmer asked whether it is possible to add reference lines to the categorical axis of a bar chart. The answer is yes. You can use the VBAR statement, but I prefer to use the VBARBASIC (or VBARPARM) statement, which enables you to overlay a wide variety of graphs

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization

Mark DemersNovember 2, 2021 0

How analytics helps move organizations to a 'new normal'

Industries including sports and entertainment, travel, manufacturing, education and government benefit from analytical insights In the United States and other parts of the world, there are signs. Record automobile traffic. Surging demand for workers. And a continued push to vaccinate. The pandemic and its effects are still very much with

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