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

Sandra Hernandez

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

Weighted histogram in 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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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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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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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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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 24, 2017 0

Getting started with SGPLOT - Part 7 - Vertical HighLow Plot

This is the 7th installment of the Getting Started series. The audience is the user who is new to the SG Procedures. Experienced users may also find some useful nuggets of information here. Starting with SAS 9.3 which was released 6 years ago, the SGPLOT procedure supports many new plot types including

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert RufSeptember 22, 2017 0

#Schönwetterfahrer – oder was man im Urlaub über Datenvisualisierung lernen kann

Datenvisualisierung – Manchmal braucht man einfach extrinsische Motivationsfaktoren, um andere Wege zu gehen. Die Zweiradreisenden unter uns kennen und schätzen die besondere Art der Fortbewegung (ohne Blechdach) mit all ihren Vor- und Nachteilen. Eine begrenzte Gepäckkapazität, fehlende Klimatisierung, größere Unfallgefahr usw. sind Faktoren, mit denen man dabei leben muss. Was

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 20, 2017 0

Amusement park attendance (could Wikipedia be wrong?!?)

How do the North American amusement parks compare in popularity? If this question was to come up during a lunch discussion, I bet someone would pull out their smartphone and go to Wikipedia for the answer. But is Wikipedia the definitive answer - how can we tell if Wikipedia is wrong?

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldSeptember 18, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Inserting a graph into a graph

You can use SG Annotation (and its GTL equivalent) to display one graph inside another.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinSeptember 18, 2017 0

The path of zip codes

Toe bone connected to the foot bone, Foot bone connected to the leg bone, Leg bone connected to the knee bone,... — American Spiritual, "Dem Bones" Last week I read an interesting article on Robert Kosara's data visualization blog. Kosara connected the geographic centers of the US zip codes in

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Marcia SurrattSeptember 15, 2017 0

PROC SGPLOT: There’s an ATTRS for that

The SGPLOT procedure (as well as other ODS Graphics procedures) does a great job of creating nice- looking output with very little coding. However, there are times when you want to make adjustments to the output's appearance. For those occasions, we have an ATTRS for that! The statements in PROC

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 12, 2017 0

Where do hurricanes strike Florida? (110 years of data)

With Hurricane Irma recently pummeling pretty much the entire state of Florida, I got to wondering where past hurricanes have hit the state. Let's get some data, and figure out how to best analyze it using SAS software! I did a bit of web searching, and found the following map

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Government | Insurance | Travel

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 10, 2017 0

Bar charts with color response

Bar charts in SGPLOT procedure have some new features that everyone may not be familiar with. In this article we will create bar charts with color response on linear axes. Normally, the VBAR statement treats the x-axis as discrete, placing each unique value by itself, equally spaced on the x-axis.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 8, 2017 0

What cities are in Hurricane Irma's path?

As Hurricane Irma makes its way through the Caribbean, and heads towards the United States, the big question on everyone's mind ... is the hurricane going to hit my city? Or, as some people like to say, "should I buy milk & bread?" Let's analyze & map some data to

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Government | Travel

Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerSeptember 7, 2017 0

How do I access the Premium Esri Map Service for my SAS Visual Analytics reports?

In SAS Visual Analytics 8.1, report creators have the ability to include drive-distance and drive-time in their geographical maps, but only if their site has an Esri ArcGIS Online account and they have valid credentials for the account. In the user Settings for SAS Visual Analytics Geographic Mapping 8.1 release,

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 7, 2017 0

How rare are Category 5 hurricanes?

I suppose we've all been watching Hurricane Irma rip through the Caribbean like a giant buzzsaw blade, with wind speeds over 180mph. This is one of those rare Category 5 storms. But just how rare are Category 5 hurricanes? According to the Wikipedia page, hurricanes with wind speeds >=157mph are

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Government | Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 1, 2017 0

Where do modern day pirates attack?

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sept 19 ... which always gets me thinking and wondering about modern-day pirates. Most movies usually focus on pirates from the Golden Age of piracy (a couple hundred years ago), when pirates typically stole ships and booty (treasure). But modern day pirates usually board

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Government | Travel

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 30, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Examining and processing templates

This post shows a variety of techniques including how to use PROC TEMPLATE and the SOURCE statement, PROC SGPLOT with multiple Y-axis tables, create comparable axes in two side-by-side graphs, create a broken axis, write and use a table template that wraps text, and find and display examples of certain statements in graph templates and fonts in style templates.

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Data Visualization

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 25, 2017 0

Fun with ODS Graphics: Eclipse animation (part 2)

This example shows how to create two coordinated range attribute maps and use them in creating an animated gif of the eclipse.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 25, 2017 0

When's the next total solar eclipse?

The U.S. was really fortunate in having the recent total solar eclipse pass through so many of its states! This gave lots of people an opportunity to see it, with just a short (or moderate) drive. I think a little kid spoke for all of us when they said "Let's

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