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SAS ColombiaOctober 19, 2016 0

Analytics Everywhere: el caso de Ferrari

No cabe duda de que la analítica ahora está en todas partes. Gracias a la Nube (cloud) se puede acceder a las soluciones desde cualquier lugar y aplicarla en todo lo que nos imaginemos. Incluso en una pista tan sofisticada y tecnológica como resulta ser la de la Fórmula 1,

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 17, 2016 0

How much does each country spend on healthcare?

With the US Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other health topics in the news lately, I wondered how much people spend on healthcare in various countries. Of course spending varies from person to person, so I decided to take a look at the average per capita spending in each country (it's

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 12, 2016 0

Which drinks have the most, and least, caffeine?

A friend and I were recently debating how much caffeine is in various drinks. I felt like my hands were tied behind my back, since I had no graphs to show them. Of course, the first thing I did when I got to work was create some caffeine graphs! They turned out

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldOctober 11, 2016 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Title change macro

Have you ever wanted to modify a graph title that is produced by an analytical procedure? You can make a wide variety of changes by modifying the graph template. Modifying the graph template is straight forward. You specify ODS TRACE ON, run the procedure, find the template name, display the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 10, 2016 0

Where did Hurricane Matthew drop the most water?

This past weekend, Hurricane Matthew came through the Carolinas. Some areas had record flooding, while other areas didn't. I was anxious to get back to work today, so I could use SAS software and create a custom map showing who got how much rain. But before we get to the official

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Data Visualization

Dan StevensOctober 8, 2016 0

Building clinical data and insight visually

Have you ever been involved in executing an exploratory analysis based on an integrated clinical trial database? If so, you've probably experienced firsthand how elaborate the initial phase of data access and data processing can be. Market analysts estimate the ratio for preparing the data, compared to actually analyzing the information,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 7, 2016 0

Digging deeper into weather data, with custom SAS Analytics!

When you were growing up, did you ever imagine that the most popular show on TV would be 24-hour coverage of a storm?!? Yes, for better or for worse, the weather has become our new reality TV. And as you watch the weather coverage, you probably see all the weather reporters showing the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Christine KomanderOctober 7, 2016 0

Data Scientist – Data Artist – Data Journalist – wie bitte, wer?

Nachdem der Data Scientist mittlerweile bei allen Digitalisierungsthemen und der damit einhergehenden Analytik in aller Munde ist, geistern nun auch etliche andere Rollendefinitionen durch die Positionierungen der verschiedenen Anbieter. Ein paar dieser neuen Bezeichnungen würde ich gerne aufgreifen und erklären, zusätzlich ein paar Denkanstöße mitgeben.

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 4, 2016 0

Getting Started with SGPLOT - Part 1 - Scatter Plot

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting my paper "Graphs are Easy with SAS 9.4" at the Boston SAS Users Group meeting. The turn out was large and over 75% of the audience appeared to be using SAS 9.4 back home. This was good as my paper was focused on the cool new

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 4, 2016 0

Will Hurricane Matthew follow in its predecessors' footsteps?

Like many words, if you just say "Cat 5" different people might think you're talking about different things. Computer geeks might assume you're talking about category 5 network cabling. But around this time of the year, most people in the southeast US will probably assume you're talking about a category

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Data Visualization

Frederic ThysSeptember 27, 2016 0

Our world is flat, but our employees aren’t: How to manage and hire with analytics

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 27, 2016 0

A statistical crossword puzzle to exercise your brain

I recently read a very interesting article describing how analytics is being used to detect cheating/copying/re-use in crossword puzzle creation, in some of the major news publications. This inspired me to try my hand at creating a totally new & unique crossword puzzle ... of course using SAS software! :) My grandmother

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 24, 2016 0

Spark and Summary Plots

In the area of graphical visualization of data, Edward Tufte is a thought leader and has put forth many innovative ideas that enhance the understanding of the information in the graph with minimal distractions and potential for misinterpretation. One of his ideas has been the use of "Spark" plots. As per my

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 19, 2016 0

Where did that gasoline pipeline break?

Last week, one of the major pipelines supplying gasoline to the eastern US broke. Do you know where the break is, and which states will be having shortages? Me neither! ... So, of course, I created a SAS map to help... First I read up about the spill on various

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 16, 2016 0

A few (hundred) SAS graphs to choose from!...

I've created several hundred SAS graphs over the years. I was just musing to myself this morning how nicely Google lets me peruse through images of my graphs. And I thought some of you might also like to know how to do that... Most of you know how to search for keywords

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldSeptember 13, 2016 0

Legend order and group attributes

In this post, I will show you how to control the order of the entries in a legend and explicitly control the correspondence between groups and style elements in PROC SGPLOT. In many cases, the colors that are used to differentiate groups do not matter--the graph simply needs to display

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 12, 2016 0

How to create your own QR codes with SAS!

You've seen the QR codes that you can just scan in with your smartphone's camera, rather than writing down a web URL or other information, right? But do you know how to create your own QR code? Here's an easy way to create them, using SAS... You're probably familiar with

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 8, 2016 0

Where will the 'union vote' matter most in the upcoming election?

In the past, a large percentage of US workers have been union members, and the unions could exert a big influence on elections. How powerful are the unions these days, an where do they wield the most influence? Let's map it out... In 1954, almost 35% of US workers belonged to

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Andreas BecksSeptember 8, 2016 0

Ohne Kompromisse: 9 Tipps für Analytics

Data Science, Self-Service, Machine Learning, Internet of Things … All diese Begriffe rund um die Digitalisierung geistern schon seit einiger Zeit durch die IT-Welt – und nicht nur durch diese. Spätestens die letzte Fußball-EM hat mit dem Phänomen „Packing“ auch dem Nicht-ITler unter den Fans des Breitensports die Augen geöffnet,

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Data Visualization

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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