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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonApril 10, 2017 0

Your mapping toolkit Tip #1 - reducing border complexity

With the advent of things like car GPS & Google Maps, and a steady supply of nice maps from certain news sources (such as the New York Times), people have finally embraced the idea that mapping data can be very useful. And if you are into data visualization, you have

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Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerApril 10, 2017 0

Easy Scheduling in Visual Data Builder - SAS Visual Analytics 7.3

You can expand on the functionality of SAS Visual Data Builder in SAS Visual Analytics by editing the query code, adding code for pre- and post-processing, or even writing your own query. You can process single tables or join multiple tables, writing the output to a LASR library, a SAS library, or a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzApril 10, 2017 0

How to design an infographic about volcanic eruptions using SAS Visual Analytics

Earth is an explosive world! Data from the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) documents Earth's volcanoes and their eruptive history over the past 10,000 years. The GVP database includes the names, locations, types, and features of more than 1,500 volcanoes. Let's look closer into volcanic eruptions across the globe

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 7, 2017 0

Visualizing a flight path with weather data in SAS

In his recent blog article on Drawing Paths on a Map using SGPLOT, Robert Allison showed us visually the path computed by the captain of his return flight from Orlando. As usual, one can rely on Robert to put in visual form some interesting bit of information. Thanks, Robert. I

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonApril 6, 2017 0

Drawing paths on a map using SGplot

For those of you who don't have SAS/Graph's Proc GMap, I recently showed how to 'fake' a variety of maps using Proc SGplot polygons. So far I've written blogs on creating: pretty maps, gradient shaded choropleth maps, and maps with markers at zip codes. And now (by special request from

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekApril 6, 2017 0

Chauffeur und Data Scientist günstig abzugeben

1901 prognostizierte Gottlieb Daimler: „Die weltweite Nachfrage nach Kraftfahrzeugen wird eine Million nicht überschreiten – allein schon aus Mangel an verfügbaren Chauffeuren." Heute fahren die meisten selber und das selbstfahrende Auto scheint auch greifbar nah. Chauffeure braucht heute kein Mensch mehr. Wie sieht das, bei immer mehr Self-Service-Analytics und Machine

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Banking | Education | Government | Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Events

Becky GraebeApril 4, 2017 0

What can a BBC data journalist teach you about data visualization?

In an industry full of word people, it's not uncommon to hear journalists lament, “Data, what are you doing here!?” But today, data is a tool in the newsroom, and reporters often need to know how to analyze and present data to readers as part of their role in communicating information to the public.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldApril 4, 2017 0

Consistent Ordering of All Graph Components

This post shows you how to make a bar chart and an X-axis table; ensure consistency in the order of the legend, bar subgroups, and axis table rows; coordinate the colors for each of those components; and drive all the color choices from an attribute map.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Hwa TruongMarch 31, 2017 0

How to make sense of the Madness in March

March Madness is in full swing. And the success of the Dance Card formula powered by SAS -- along with stories about teams like the New York Mets, the Boston Bruins, the Orlando Magic and more, all using analytics -- demonstrates how sports and analytics are becoming more and more

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 31, 2017 0

How about a free eBook on data visualization using SAS!

If you're into data visualization, here's something that might interest you - a free eBook showing several ways to use SAS to visually analyze your data. (Did I mention it's FREE?!?!) We've picked juicy chapters from several books and upcoming books (and a few other sources), to show you what

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 29, 2017 0

Plotting markers on a map at zip code locations, using GMap or SGplot

Users frequently ask how to plot their data as markers on a map. There are several ways to do this using SAS software. If you're a Visual Analytics user, you can do it using a point-and-click interface. But if you're a coder, you might need a little help... In this

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Data Visualization | SAS Events

Sanjay MatangeMarch 29, 2017 0

Graph presentations at SAS Global Forum 2017

SAS Global Forum 2017 is around the corner and SAS users are gearing up to travel to Orlando for a blockbuster conference. ODS Graphics is now a well known component of Base SAS and many readers of this blog who are proficient users of SG Procedures and GTL can look

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzMarch 28, 2017 0

How to design a meteorite infographic using NASA data and SAS

How many meteorites have hit the earth in the last 4,000 years? Where have they landed? And which ones were the biggest? Can we show all of this information - and more in an intuitive data visualization? It turns out NASA provides public data about recorded meteorite impacts on earth all the

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 27, 2017 0

Scatter with layer

This article is motivated by a recent question on the Communities Web Site on creating a scatter plot with additional summary information. Recently, I described how to create a scatter plot with a box overlay. While such graphs have been discussed in earlier posts, this article provided a visual benefit

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Energy & Utilities | Health Care | Insurance | Life Sciences | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 27, 2017 0

Let's analyze 32 years of basketball tournament data!

Here in the US, it's the nationwide men's college basketball tournament season! Therefore let's use some data from the previous years' tournaments to sharpen our analytics & visualization skills... But before we get started, I must mention (brag?) that my alma mater, NC State University, won this tournament in 1983.

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiMarch 27, 2017 0

Data visualization helps University of Louisville achieve its 2020 strategic plan

When senior leaders at the University of Louisville (UofL) approached Vice Provost Bob Goldstein in early April 2016 with a request for a fully functioning data visualization platform by start of the 2016 fall semester—just four months away—he did not panic. Instead, Goldstein, along with Becky Patterson, Executive Director of

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 23, 2017 0

Bringing the heat! - Creating heat maps with proc sgplot ...

If you're a fan of SAS' ODS Graphics, you probably know that it does pretty much everything except geographical maps. But it's flexible enough that you can "fake it 'till you make it"! This example describes how to fake a geographical (choropleth) heat map using Proc SGplot polygons. In my

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Government | Health Care

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 21, 2017 0

How to create a 'pretty' map with Proc SGplot

If you give an artist some tools, they can create a pretty picture. Sure, they might have a preferred tool - but they can probably do a pretty decent job no matter what you give them (paint, colored pencils, watercolor, charcoal, etc). And creating pretty graphs in SAS is no

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Government | Travel

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Bari LawhornMarch 20, 2017 0

Create accessible ODS results with SAS or "Why you should be running SAS 9.4M4!"

Let’s look at the term “accessible” and how it relates to the SAS world. Accessible output is output that can be read by a screen reader to someone with low or no vision, visualized by someone with low vision or color blindness, or navigated by someone with limited mobility. In

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Tomasz Rydzewski

Tomasz RydzewskiMarch 17, 2017 0

SAS Visual Analytics - jak wykorzystać potęgę analityki?

Obecnie większość firm, operujących na danych, korzysta z mniej lub bardziej zaawansowanej analityki. Ten trend przestaje być przywilejem wielkich korporacji, a staje się standardem dla wszystkich, także małych i średnich firm. I tak jak potrzeba korzystania z analityki rozprzestrzenia się wśród firm, tak dzieje się to także wewnątrz organizacji, zwiększając

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Data Visualization

Michael ThomasMarch 17, 2017 0

Immersive analytics: yes or no?

I’m drawn to immersive analytics (IA) because it covers areas I’ve been looking at since 2012, and have been publishing on since early 2014, like virtual reality and data worlds. I’m retroactively applying the cool new term IA (not to be confused with AI for artificial intelligence) to all of my activities

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 16, 2017 0

Using SAS to track UFOs on Mars!

When we send spacecraft from Earth to Mars, do the Martians consider them to be UFOs? I might not be able to answer that question definitively ... but I do have some really cool graphs showing the data for all those missions to Mars! You might remember a previous blog

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Government | Life Sciences | Travel

Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Cindy PuryearMarch 13, 2017 0

Reuse a Graph with Different Data

This post is from SAS Author Sanjay Matange. It's part of our SAS Author Tips series. Do you have a complex multi-cell graph created in ODS Graphics Designer that you’d like to reuse with different data? Ideally, you’d like to change the data without having to change the plots in each cell. The

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Dr. Jürgen KaselowskyMarch 13, 2017 0

Entschuldigung, wo bitte kann ich denn Data Scientist werden?

Ach, dieses ewige Big-Data-Gerede … alles nur Marketing, oder ist da vielleicht doch etwas dran? Brauche ich das als Absolvent auf Jobsuche? Und wenn ja, wo wird denn so etwas angeboten? Blickt da jemand überhaupt noch durch? Klar, ich! Es sind spannende Zeiten, denn es ist nicht mehr zu leugnen:

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Students & Educators

Michael ThomasMarch 10, 2017 0

North Carolina's youth chess championship by the numbers

Once again, SAS is sponsoring the North Carolina Scholastic Chess Championship. The 43 year-old event is at the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend, March 11-12th. SAS sponsors this event because of the STEM education benefits of youth chess. Hundreds of players have been preparing and studying. A few even practiced

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 9, 2017 0

Getting Started with SGPLOT - Part 4 - Series Plot

This is the 4th 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. Series plots are frequently used to visualize a numeric response on the y-axis by another numeric variable on

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerMarch 8, 2017 0

Calculating standard deviation of a measure in Visual Analytics Designer

Several months ago, I posted a blog about calculating moving averages for a measure in the Visual Analytics Designer. Soon after that, I was asked about calculating not only the average, but also the standard deviation over a period of months, when the data might consist of one or more

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 8, 2017 0

What's your next move? (analytics for a chess tournament)

The NC Scholastic Chess Championship is coming up this weekend, and my buddy Michael Thomas asked if I might could create a few graphs to help analyze the event data. How could I pass up an opportunity like that?!?! Read along, and find out what graphs I created, and the

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 3, 2017 0

Funnel Graphs

Funnel graphs are useful to track the number of visitors passing through various pages of a website or the number of patients in a study. The graph shows visually the retention of users or subjects in a study across levels of a marketing cycle or the study. One common representation

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