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Robert AllisonSeptember 2, 2016 0

Can you name all the SAS colors?

Anybody can come up with a list of simple colors, such as red, green, and blue. If you're a bit more color savvy, you might even throw in indigo, magenta, and fuchsia. But what about more obscure names such as cornsilk, mistyrose, and midnightblue? This blog post will help you

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 31, 2016 0

Are milkweed and monarchs making a comeback?

Everyone who knows about monarch butterflies, likes monarch butterflies. This blog post focuses on their food source - milkweed. And to get you in the mood, here's an amazingly beautiful picture my friend Eniko made of a monarch: In recent years, I had heard reports of the dwindling number of

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 30, 2016 0

Analog clocks, vinyl records, and payphones

What do people have in common who have used analog clocks, vinyl records, and payphones? They were all probably born before 1980! Now, let's focus on those payphones!... A lot of young kids these days can't imagine a world where everyone doesn't have a wireless phone. My buddy Ed likes

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeAugust 27, 2016 0

Clinical Graphs - Risk Difference Plots

Often I have written articles that are motivated by some question by a user on how to create a particular graph, or how to work around some shortcoming in the feature set to create the graph you need. This time, I got a question about Clinical Graphs that were mostly working

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 25, 2016 0

How close are you to a nuclear plant?

Have you ever wondered how far you live from the closest nuclear power plant? I've crunched the numbers for cities here in the US, and created an interactive SAS map to help answer that question! The average age of US nuclear power plants is 35 years, and there just doesn't

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 24, 2016 0

A map of Zika cases in the US

As Zika starts spreading into the US, it will be important to have a way to track it. Therefore I wrote some SAS code to pull the latest data from the CDC website, and plot it on a map... But before we get into the details of my map, I

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 18, 2016 0

If we didn't start the fire, then who did?

If you're into 1980s pop music, then I bet you love Billy Joel's song We Didn't Start the Fire. But do you know every word, and the significance of every reference? Let's use SAS software to create an interactive visualization that will help you fully understand this song! I first saw

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 15, 2016 0

Female voters outnumber males in North Carolina

Since this is an election year, I've been scrutinizing the voter registration data. One thing that surprised me is there are more female voters registered in NC than males. I wondered if this was consistent across all 100 counties, and created some charts to help visualize the data... First I went

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeAugust 15, 2016 0

Clinical Graphs: A1c Plot

Last week I was visiting San Diego for the SANDS conference. I always enjoy this conference as I get to interact closely with the users to hear of their pains and innovative solutions to creating Clinical Graphs. In the conference Ed Barber asked about displaying A1c data along with some

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 12, 2016 0

What's your stress score?

There's an old expression "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it" - and while that expression probably isn't universally true (as pointed out in this interesting article), I think having a way to quantify your stress could be useful. I recently read an interesting article about the Holmes-Rahe Life

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 10, 2016 0

Solar and wind power in the United States

Where is solar and wind power generated in the US? Let's visualize this data on a map... I recently saw the following map on the metricmaps.org website. It caught my attention because it looks like North Carolina has a lot of solar power plants, whereas our neighboring states have very few.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 8, 2016 0

Is the US still a coal-powered nation?

I ran across a map recently that seemed to show a lot of US states are primarily coal-powered. The map was a little difficult to read, so I decided to give it a SAS makeover ... Before we get started, here's a picture my friend David took of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 8, 2016 0

Outline cells in a table using a heat map

There are many ways to use a heat map. For big data sets, heat maps provide a substitute for scatter plots. Heat maps can also be used to enhance small tables. Several of my colleagues (Sanjay Matange, Pratik Phadke, Rick Wicklin, Chris Hemedinger, and probably others) have posted about using

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 5, 2016 0

91% of the US didn't vote for Hillary or Trump!

How is it that 91% of the US didn't vote for either Hillary or Trump in the primary, but yet they're still the final two candidates in the presidential election? Let's break it down with a simple graph! I recently saw a really cool slideshow on the nytimes website, that answered

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 4, 2016 0

Walking the line, between politics and religion

I usually try to avoid political or religious debates ... but as an impartial data analyst, it is possible to analyze data about something, without entering into the debate. In this blog post, I try to walk that fine line, and analyze data about the political leanings of religious groups in the US.

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeAugust 1, 2016 0

Likert Graph Revisited

A few weeks back I posted an article on ways to create a WindRose Graph using SGPLOT procedure. The process is relatively simple. Create (R, Theta) data with both numeric axes where the Theta is a value in the data range is 0-360, and R is the corresponding response value. Then

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Data Visualization

Panagiota VyrgiotiAugust 1, 2016 0

Data Visualization: From Information to Wisdom

How often does a graph change the world? In 1854, Doctor John Snow produced a map to plotter cholera cases by drawing on a London map a bar for each reported death. Until then, it was believed that cholera was spread by miasma in the air, however, transmission method has

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 29, 2016 0

Most efficient way to find rare Pokémon

Were you the kid who sat there analyzing the amusement park map before entering the park, planning out how you could visit the most rides in the least amount of time? If so, then this blog's for you, my data analyst kindred spirit! And to get you in the mood,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 26, 2016 0

Do you trust statistics?

One of my favorite quotes is: "You can't believe everything you read on the Internet" - Abe Lincoln, 1868. And that is especially true when it comes to graphs and statistics. Hardly a day goes by without me seeing a bad graph that misrepresents the data (either intentionally or unintentionally) .

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Data Visualization

Prashant HebbbarJuly 25, 2016 0

'Unbox' Your Box Plots - part deux

There was a recent comment on the original 'Unbox Your Box Plots', where a user wants to see the original data for the box, but only label the outliers. As noted in the comment, labeling all the scatter markers and turning on the outlier display is not ideal. But there

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 24, 2016 0

Stock Plots

This weekend I was reviewing my portfolio of stocks as usual. Yes, I do have a small stock portfolio with a few stocks, and normally I use free stock charting software to review the stock plots. These sites allow you to view the daily stock prices along with many technical

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 21, 2016 0

How to use SAS software to capture Pokémon!

With the Pokémon Go craze sweeping the world, techies and programmers are looking to apply their skills to gain an advantage over the average user. In this blog post, I show how to use some of SAS' geospatial analytics capabilities to capture a Pikachu. Let's say you know of a building that has

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 19, 2016 0

Putting the US in the EU ... bucking the Brexit trend!

What would it be like if the US was in the EU? I don't know how that would work out politically, but this map shows how it might look geographically (if the US was literally picked up and moved to Europe!) My buddy Rick Langston is a bit of a

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 17, 2016 0

Graph Table with Class

As often is the case, this article is prompted by a recent post on the SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics page communities page. A user wanted to create a Graph Table showing a bar chart with tabular data for each of the category values along the x-axis. The user was creatively using

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 15, 2016 0

Pokémon: Gotta graph 'em all!

So, how many different Pokémon have you caught - and more importantly, how many different kinds are still out there that you haven't caught yet? I've created some graphs that might help you figure it out! I think my previous blog post might have irritated some of the hardcore Pokémon players out there

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Toby TextJuly 14, 2016 0

Letzte Tankstelle vor der Grenze ...

Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie sind frühmorgens mit dem Auto „ab in den Urlaub“ gefahren. Durch vorausschauende Routenplanung sind Sie den größten Staurisiken glücklich ausgewichen und nähern sich bei geschätzten 38°C der letzten Landesgrenze vor Ihrem Urlaubsziel. Die ganze Familie sitzt mit ausgelassener Stimmung im vollgepackten Auto. Die Kinder auf

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 13, 2016 0

Graphical analysis of all the important Pokémon data!

Are you caught up in the recent Pokémon Go craze? Or maybe just trying to figure out what all the fuss is about? In this blog post, I try to analyze all the important Pokémon-related data in one graph! When the original Pokémon game first came out around 1995, you needed

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Data Visualization | Students & Educators

Georgia MarianiJuly 13, 2016 0

Community college answers complex ‘why’ questions with data visualization and analytics

Reporting can reveal last year’s graduation rates or this semester’s completion rates at a local community college. But drilling further into that data to ask why students aren’t graduating or why they aren’t enrolling requires more complex analysis. At Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, college administrators and professors are

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 11, 2016 0

What to include in your website

What information should you make easily available from the top page of your website? This Venn diagram might help you decide! Have you ever gone to a website to try to find some information, and had a (expletive) difficult time trying to find that info? I think there is often a

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