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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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Data Visualization

Warren F. KuhfeldDecember 5, 2018 0

A career in review - my final Graphically Speaking post

After almost 32 years, I am retiring from SAS.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonDecember 4, 2018 0

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

It might snow this weekend here at the SAS headquarters! This would be the first snow of the season for us, and it got me thinking about snow again (see some of my previous blog posts about snow). Apparently these thoughts have manifested themselves in my computer graphics work ...

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Data Visualization

Lavanya MandavilliDecember 3, 2018 0

How to create a playable dashboard with SAS Visual Analytics

When a Visual Analytics 8.3 report moves on a screen from one page to the next – all by itself, without a human hovering over a keyboard – you're seeing the Report Playback feature of SAS Visual Analytics Viewer 8.3 in action. Reasons for using visual movement Playable dashboards are

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 3, 2018 0

5 tips for customizing legends in PROC SGPLOT in SAS

When a graph includes several markers or line styles, it is often useful to create a legend that explains the relationship between the data and the symbols, color, and line styles in the graph. The SGPLOT procedure does a good job of automatically creating and placing a legend for most

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SERIES and BUBBLE Plots

Kelly MillsNovember 29, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP Series Plot – Importing Shapefiles and using PROC GPROJECT

In August 2018, Hurricane Florence came on shore in North Carolina. Much of the damage was from flooding because the storm moved slowly over North and South Carolina. Parts of North Carolina had over 30 inches of rain from the storm, and this caused many of North Carolina’s rivers to

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

Suneel GroverNovember 27, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Model management for competitive differentiation [Part 1]

The universe of customer experiences, digital analytics, personalization and decisioning is massive. At times, it can seem as complicated and vast as the galaxy itself. With intricate subjects underneath this umbrella, you can lose direction, wander aimlessly, or feel a misleading sense of success or failure. When you lose vision,

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeNovember 26, 2018 0

The SGPIE Procedure

The 6th maintenance release of SAS 9.4 is now available for users. Along with it comes a new SG procedure - the SGPIE procedure (pre-production). The primary audience for the SG procedures has been the analytical user, for creating effective displays of analytical data. However, the rich feature set of these

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 26, 2018 0

Creating a 'Matrix-like' movie scroll animation, from a text file

Do you remember The Matrix movies, that started coming out in 1999? Hopefully this movie franchise didn't give you a fear of virtual reality and AI. The thing I remember most from the movie was the really cool slow-motion video effects (from multiple angles) in the fight scenes. And the

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinNovember 26, 2018 0

A funnel plot for immunization rates

Last week my colleague, Robert Allison, visualized data regarding immunization rates for kindergarten classes in North Carolina. One of his graphs was a scatter plot that displayed the proportion of unimmunized students versus the size of the class for 1,885 kindergarten classes in NC. This scatter plot is the basis

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 21, 2018 0

Finding a cut-your-own Christmas tree in North Carolina

This week I noticed that they've started building the lot where they sell Christmas trees near SAS (at the intersection of Maynard & Reedy Creek Rd). They put up a nice rustic wooden fence, and lights, and maybe even a fire pit to keep their workers warm. They sell some

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Data for Good | Data Management | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 20, 2018 0

Immunization rates in North Carolina schools

I recently read an article that said a school in Asheville, North Carolina had the worst chickenpox outbreak in the state in 2 decades. The article was interesting, and it also let me know I had a hole in my knowledge ... "What?!? - There's a chickenpox vaccine?!?" When I

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SGMAP with CHOROMAP using %CENTROID

Kelly MillsNovember 20, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP, Base SAS Procedures and MAPSSAS Data Sets

Starting with SAS 9.4M6, procedures that used to be provided with a SAS/GRAPH installation are now available with Base SAS. Using these procedures along with PROC SGMAP can help you create some very nice maps. This blog builds on previous posts and highlights the: MAPSSAS Data Sets GREMOVE procedure %CENTROID

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeNovember 16, 2018 0

Waterfall Graph with more data for subject - Part 2

A few days back I published an article on including more subject data in a Waterfall graph. This was motivated by the desire from many users to view more data in the same graph, thus avoiding the need to refer to different graphs for the relevant information. In this case,

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 15, 2018 0

Where do provisional ballots come from?

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this year's midterm election, when it comes to counting the ballots ... and I kept hearing the term provisional ballots in the news. But I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't really know much about provisional ballots. I decided to do a

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 14, 2018 0

Building a better election map

The US 'midterm' elections have finally started to wind down, and we finally have some (mostly) finalized results to study. But what's the best way to visualize who won the US congressional seats in each of the 435 districts? Let's dive into this topic!... Preparation For starters, I couldn't find

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 14, 2018 0

Create and compare ROC curves for any predictive model

An ROC curve graphically summarizes the tradeoff between true positives and true negatives for a rule or model that predicts a binary response variable. An ROC curve is a parametric curve that is constructed by varying the cutpoint value at which estimated probabilities are considered to predict the binary event.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeNovember 12, 2018 0

Waterfall Graph with more data for subject

Previously, I have written articles on how we could display more subject response data along with the traditional WaterFall graph showing the best "Change from Baseline". This is in response to the desire to see data like treatment duration for each subject in the same graph. Otherwise, investigators have to

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

5 data visualisation questions to take your dashboard from good to great

Chiara MigottoNovember 12, 2018 0

5 data visualisation questions to take your dashboard from good to great

Did you know that the human attention span is eight seconds, which is a second shorter than that of a goldfish? About eight seconds is all you have to capture your viewer’s attention and create a reason to stay on your dashboard. Therefore, having a great dashboard, and not just

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinNovember 12, 2018 0

Define custom color ramps by using the RANGEATTRMAP statement in GTL

The SGPLOT procedure enables you to use the value of a response variable to color markers or areas in a graph. For example, you can use the COLORRESPONSE= option to define a variable whose values will be used to color markers in a scatter plot or cells in a heat

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

Suneel GroverNovember 9, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: A look inside the black box of machine learning [Part 3]

In parts one and two of this blog posting series, we introduced machine learning models and the complexity that comes along with their extraordinary predictive abilities. Following this, we defined interpretability within machine learning, made the case for why we need it, and where it applies. In part three of

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 8, 2018 0

Enhancing a congressional district map - one layer at a time

With the recent midterm elections here in the US, I frequently saw congressional district maps popping up in the news. And being a GraphGuy, I wanted to fully understand these maps, to see if I might could improve them. If you're interested in congressional district maps, follow along as I

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 6, 2018 0

Creating a custom 'I Voted' sticker

With today being an election day here in the US, I see a lot of people wearing the 'I Voted' sticker. This got me wondering if I could create my own sticker ... using SAS software and simple graphics primitives. :-) So I started by using Proc Gslide to create

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Data Visualization | Internet of Things | Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerNovember 6, 2018 0

Reporting on accelerometer data with SAS Visual Analytics

I've collected accelerometer data with a third-party app. I've used some SAS tricks to import all of my data readings in a single step. Now I'm ready to create a report of these data in SAS Visual Analytics.

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

Suneel GroverNovember 5, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: A look inside the black box of machine learning [Part 2]

In part one of this blog posting series, we introduced machine learning models as a multifaceted and evolving topic. The complexity that gives extraordinary predictive abilities also makes these models challenging to understand. They generally don’t provide a clear explanation, and brands experimenting with machine learning are questioning whether they

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Data Management | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

constellation map - first 25 states

Robert AllisonNovember 2, 2018 0

Visualizing cities as constellations in the night sky

Who says technical people can't have fun!?! Similar to Throwback Thursday / #TBT (when people post one of their old/nostalgic photos on social media), I like the tradition of Fun Friday when I use a fun data topic to test our software - a test can be just as rigorous using

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Education | Travel

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeNovember 1, 2018 0

Text plot can do that

The TEXT plot was introduced with SAS 9.4M2 to facilitate placement of text strings in a graph. This replaces the MARKERCHAR feature of the SCATTER plot statement, which is still available, but it is better to use TEXT plot in most cases. The syntax is: text x=column y=column text=column </

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

Suneel GroverNovember 1, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: A look inside the black box of machine learning [Part 1]

As machine learning takes its place in numerous advances within the marketing ecosystem, the interpretability of these modernized algorithmic approaches grows in importance. According to my SAS peer Ilknur Kaynar Kabul: We are surrounded with applications powered by machine learning, and we’re personally affected by the decisions made by machines

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 31, 2018 0

Tracking Trump's approval rating

President Donald Trump - people seem to either love him or hate him. Which makes for an interesting data-analysis topic ... tracking Trump's approval rating. Follow along as I explore some data! I'll start with what I consider the 'best' approval-rating graph I've found so far. Here's a screen-capture of

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeOctober 31, 2018 0

Using SAS Viya REST APIs to access images from SAS Visual Analytics

This article is the first in a series of three publications covering REST APIs and their use in, and with SAS. Today, I want to cover a basic example using SAS Viya REST APIs to download an image from a report in SAS Visual Analytics.

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