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Sanjay MatangeOctober 22, 2017 0

Tips and tricks: Segmented discrete axis

The previous post on Multiple Blank Categories showed how to include multiple blank categories on the axis. But, given the purpose for this was to separate different segments in the data, I also included ideas on how to segmented a discrete axis using reference lines or Block Plot. A similar idea

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 19, 2017 0

Fun with ODS Graphics: Drawing and rotating an impossible triangle

I hope everyone has noticed some new shortcuts in Graphically Speaking. As you scroll down and look to the right, there are shortcuts for Sanjay's getting started and clinical graphs posts and one for my advanced blogs. When Sanjay asked me to make an icon for my advanced blogs, at

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 17, 2017 0

RDU airport -vs- surrounding parks and nature

In growing areas such as the Research Triangle Park, there is always the tough decision between developing land for business, or keeping it natural for parks and recreation. SAS is fortunate to have the great hiking trails at Umstead Park just across the road to the north - it's the

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonOctober 16, 2017 0

A tip for moving content between SAS Viya environments

In a SAS Viya 3.2 environment two types of content can be created: SAS Visual Analytics Reports and Data Plans. For administrators, who may want to manage that content within a folder structure, there are some things to keep in mind. In the current release, both types of content can be

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 16, 2017 0

Tips and tricks - Multiple blank categories on axis

Off and on, users have expressed the need to include multiple blank categories on a discrete axis. Often, this is desirable to separate groups of bars (or categories) in a graph due to some difference their definition. Such a case was discussed in this blog article on using non breaking

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Lines plot for multiple comparison of means in SAS

Rick WicklinOctober 16, 2017 0

Graphs for multiple comparisons of means: The lines plot

Last week Warren Kuhfeld wrote about a graph called the "lines plot" that is produced by SAS/STAT procedures in SAS 9.4M5. (Notice that the "lines plot" has an 's'; it is not a line plot!) The lines plot is produced as part of an analysis that performs multiple comparisons of

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 14, 2017 0

New Features in SAS 9.40M5 - Gradient fills

ODS Graphics procedures primarily strive towards the following goal: "Make simple graphs easy and complex graphs possible". SGPLOT procedure allows you create simple graphs with a single plot statement, and create complex graphs by layering together or combining multiple plot statements. Generally, the appearance follows the guidelines set by industry

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Cindy WangOctober 13, 2017 0

A preliminary analysis of the Nobel Laureates

Every year in early October, the eyes of the world turn to Sweden and Norway, where the Nobel Prize winners are announced to the world. The Nobel Prize is considered the world's most prestigious award. Since 1901, the Prize has been presented to individuals and organizations that have made significant

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiOctober 13, 2017 0

Education analytics: Best practices for using data visualization and analytics

In this education analytics series of blog posts, we have been on a journey to learn how education customers are turning their data into insights to be a more data-informed and analytical organization. So far on our journey, we learned how education customers are using SAS, the positive impact that SAS

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Education

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 12, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Two types of axis tables

Axis tables can use the SUM= option to summarize data and display means, medians, sums, and percentages. They can instead be used to display data, text, and statistics without any summarization.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 11, 2017 0

Scottish Festivals and Highland Games

I recently took a trip to Scotland, to attend the Highland Games! (ok - that statement might be a tiny bit misleading) It was a very cool and interesting event, and I wondered where and when other such events might be happening. What better way to analyze this kind of

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Data Visualization

Makoto Unemi (畝見真)October 10, 2017 0

SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 新機能概要

2017年11月にリリース予定の「SAS Visual Analytics 8.2」に搭載予定の新機能概要をご紹介します。【SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 新機能概要】サードパーティ・ビジュアライゼーション D3.jsやC3、あるいはGoogleチャートの機能を活用し、VAに標準装備のチャートタイプでは表現できない、より柔軟で洗練されたチャートを描画し、レポートに組み込むことが可能です。新規追加ビジュアライゼーションバブルチェンジプロット、平行座標プロット、スケジュールチャート、など、新たに９種類のチャートオブジェクトが追加されます。オブジェクト間の自動リンク＆フィルタ設定レポート内の全てのオブジェクトを自動的に連係させることで、効果的でインタラクティブなレポートを簡単に作成可能です。その際、一方向のフィルタなのか双方向のフィルタなのかを指定することができます。レポート自動保存＆復元作成中のレポートは定期的に自動保存されます。これによって、仮に保存し忘れてログオフしたとしても、再ログオン時に前の状態を復元することができます。カスタム領域塗りつぶし VA7.4と同様に、地図上にカスタムで指定した領域を塗りつぶして描画することが可能です。地図機能拡張 Esri地図データとの連係機能が拡張され、デモグラフィック情報の活用が可能になります。例えば地図上に表示されている自店舗群を選択し、周辺住民の平均年収や年齢などの情報を把握でき、より効果的なロケーションアナリティクスが可能になります。

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 9, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Axis tables that contain special characters

This post provides a general macro that enables you to easily display special characters (Unicode) in axis table columns.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Ryan KumpfmillerOctober 9, 2017 0

An introduction to SAS Visual Analytics: the Parallel Period function of the Derived Item calculations

My new SAS Press book “An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics” (written in collaboration with Tricia Aanderud and Rob Collum) covers all of the different aspects of SAS® Visual Analytics, including how to develop reports, load data, and handle administration. Below is an example of the types of tips that you can find

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Advanced Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Kelci MiclausOctober 9, 2017 0

The Traveling Salesman Traverses the Plant Genome

I sit here fascinated, watching a world population clock. According to the US Census, a baby is born and a person dies every 7 and 12 seconds, respectively, in the United States. In 1950 our world had about 2.5 billion people; currently our population is over 7.3 billion. Estimates predict

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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Entre 2016 y 2019 la inversión en analítica de datos crecerá un 50%, ¿por qué?

Sandra HernandezOctober 9, 2017 0

Tres estrategias para optimizar la gestión en analítica de datos

Uno de nuestros firmes pensamientos es que el activo más valioso de las empresas son sus datos y el buen uso de ellos es el que pueden llevar a las compañías a una real transformación digital del negocio. A pesar de esto la consultora Gartner comenta que los líderes aún tienen una

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 6, 2017 0

New features with SAS 9.40 M5

SAS 9.4 maintenance release 5 was released on Sept 19, 2017. This release includes many new items including integration with SAS Viya and SAS Studio, a web application for SAS development. Also Included with this release are some cool new features in the graphics domain, some of which were requested

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 5, 2017 0

Los Angeles ozone levels - 30th anniversary revisit

The movie Blade Runner came out about 30 years ago, portraying a dystopian future set in 2019 Los Angeles. Many of the technology predictions in the movie have actually become reality - but how about the weather and pollution? The movie was all about smog and a lack of sunshine, and I wondered

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 4, 2017 0

Introducing the new SAS/STAT lines plot

In PROC GLM and most other procedures that compute LS-means, mean comparisons are now displayed graphically. This makes comparisons between a large number of groups easier to interpret.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinOctober 4, 2017 0

Create and interpret a weighted histogram

If you perform a weighted statistical analysis, it can be useful to produce a statistical graph that also incorporates the weights. This article shows how to construct and interpret a weighted histogram in SAS. How to construct a weighted histogram Before constructing a weighted histogram, let's review the construction of

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 3, 2017 0

Trends in U.S. refugee admissions

"Coming to America" - it's been the name of a funny movie and a dramatic song (can you name the actor & singer without cheating?!?) It's also been a dream for many, and an action for some. People have been coming to America both legally and illegally for many years, but there's one special category

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Government | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 1, 2017 0

Getting started with SGPLOT - Part 8 - Horizontal HighLow Plot

On a recent visit to an In-House Users Group meeting at a Pharmaceutical company, I presented a 1/2 day seminar on creating Clinical Graphs using SG Procedures. Polling the audience for their experience with these procedures indicated that many SAS users are not familiar with these new ways to create graphs. So,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiSeptember 29, 2017 0

Education analytics: The benefits of using data visualization and analytics

For our third installment in this blog post series, let’s continue our journey to learn more from three SAS education customers. Today, we'll hear about the benefits their users and institutions have received by using SAS for data visualization and analytics. In this post, you'll hear from: Linda Sullivan, Assistant Vice President

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Education

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldSeptember 29, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Monotonic functions

This post shows how to use PROC SGPLOT together with PROC TRANSREG to fit monotonically increasing or decreasing functions through a scatter plot.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 28, 2017 0

SAS and sports analytics (plotting kayak/SUP race results)

I recently paddled in a boat race, and was wondering how I did compared to all the other paddlers. And being a Graph Guy, I decided I should find a cool way to graph the data ... Here's some background information ... There's a great organization called Bridge II Sports

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Sports & Entertainment

Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunSeptember 28, 2017 0

인공지능(AI) 활용 엔터프라이즈 분석 플랫폼 ‘SAS 바이야(SAS Viya)’

분석이 매 순간, 데이터가 존재하는 모든 곳에 적용된다면 어떤 일들이 가능해질까요? 오늘날 우리는 데이터가 사회와 경제를 움직이는 ‘데이터 이코노미’ 시대에 살고 있습니다. IDC는 오는 2025년 전 세계 데이터 양이 현재의 10배에 달하는 163제타바이트(ZB)에 이를 것으로 전망했는데요. 그러나 데이터는 그 자체만으로 유용하지 않습니다. 모든 데이터는 대기 시간과 유효 기간의 속성을 지니기

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 27, 2017 0

Stock chart

In the previous article on Getting Started with Vertical HighLow Plot, I described how we can use the HighLow plot to display the stock price by date. The HighLow plot is specifically designed for such use cases as shown below. The data is downloaded from the Nasdaq web site, and

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Banking

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 27, 2017 0

Most popular international destination, from each US state

Orbitz recently published a map showing the most popular international travel destination for each of the 50 US states. It was an interesting map ... but of course, me being the Graph Guy, I had to pick it apart and create my own version. Follow along, and explore this interesting

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Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 25, 2017 0

The 'virtual wall' along the US/Mexican border

Recent news reports indicate that the number of illegal immigrants apprehended along the US/Mexican border has dropped significantly since Trump took office. So, even though Trump hasn't had time to build a physical wall, perhaps there's a virtual wall in place now (built from the change in attitudes)? I've seen

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Government | Travel

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekSeptember 25, 2017 0

Blogparade: MyParadise Found – Finden Sie Ihr persönliches Paradies!

Blogparade startet: Vor Kurzem wurde ja bereits der analytisch beste Ort der Welt gefunden und gekürt. Dazu hat SAS aus fast 150.000 Orten in rund 200 Ländern jede Menge Daten gesammelt und mit modernsten Machine-Learning-Verfahren ausgewertet. Rund 100 sogenannte Prädiktoren, also mögliche Einflussgrößen auf „paradiesische“ Verhältnisse, spuckten West Perth aus

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