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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 15, 2016 0

Worldwide jet fuel consumption

Did you ever wonder how much fuel all the jets in the world use? Perhaps these graphs will help you get a handle on it... Before we get started, here's a jet-fuel related picture to entertain you. This is a picture I took from the airplane when I went to

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Energy & Utilities | Travel

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeFebruary 10, 2016 0

Infographics using SAS

Infographics are all the rage today. Open any magazine or newspaper and we see data and numbers everywhere. Often, such information is displayed by adding some graphical information to add context to the data. A couple of good examples are Communicating numeric information, and Facts about Hot Dogs. Riley Benson, our UX

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 9, 2016 0

Driving 74 million cars on wasted natural gas

Did you know you could drive 74 million cars using the wasted natural gas that is flared from oil wells and refineries? Learn more details in this blog post! Flaring (burning) is commonly used to dispose of natural gas produced at oil and gas facilities that lack the infrastructure to capture it

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Energy & Utilities | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 5, 2016 0

How to eat 724,548 donuts and burn 138 million calories!

Eating donuts, burning calories, and raising money for a good cause -- that's what the annual Krispy Kreme Challenge is all about. If this intrigues you, read on to find out more... But first, here's a picture of me eating a donut, preparing for a race. I bet you didn't

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeFebruary 4, 2016 0

Legend Order

In the previous article on managing legends, I described the way to include items in a legend that may not exist in the data. This is done by defining a Discrete Attribute Map, and then requesting that all the values defined in the map should be displayed in the legend. In

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 3, 2016 0

Where might Zika virus strike next?

The World Health Organization recently declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency. This virus is spread by certain mosquitoes, and therefore if we know where those mosquitoes are located, then we've got a pretty good idea of where the virus might spread. Before we get to the numbers, here

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeFebruary 2, 2016 0

Legendary

Entries in a legend are populated automatically based on the data. When creating a graph with group classification, the display attributes for each bar are derived from the GraphData1-12 style elements from the active style. The graph on the right shows you the result of creating an adverse event timeline

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Data Visualization

Peter SnellingJanuary 29, 2016 0

How to make universities even smarter

Universities using data is a topic close to SAS’ heart, and in a recent blog we talked about the specific challenges that UK universities face in attracting and keeping students, and how data can help universities better understand the student lifecycle. The first Universities and College Admissions Services (UCAS) deadline

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 28, 2016 0

Which lives longer - a honey bee or black ant?

A honey bee can live for 8 years ... but a black garden ant can live even 20 years longer than that! Learn more details, and other interesting trivia, in this blog on "the longevity of things." I recently found The Animal Ageing and Longevity Database, and was fascinated by

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 26, 2016 0

How did you measure up in Snowpocalypse 2016?

The East Coast of the US got quite a snowstorm this past weekend, but did your area get enough snow to brag about? Let's see what the data says... Before we get started, here are a couple pictures of the snow. The first one is from my driveway - we didn't

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 22, 2016 0

A snow day at SAS headquarters

The East Coast is having lots of snow and ice storms today, and SAS headquarters is officially closed. But I thought it would be a great day to get a few things done! And among those few things is "write a snow-related blog". Hope you enjoy it! After 21 years of

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Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiJanuary 21, 2016 0

Performance-based funding in education

How do public higher education institutions get funded? In the past, state funding was tied to enrollment, but now more states are tying funding to institutional performance. State Legislatures want more accountability for money spent on higher education and have turned to performance-based funding (also called outcomes-based funding). As such,

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJanuary 20, 2016 0

Easy Box Plot with Multiple Connect Lines

Last month I wrote an article on connecting multiple statistics by category in a box plot using SGPLOT. In the first article I described the way you can do this using overlaid SERIES on a VBOX using SAS 9.4, which allows such a combination. However, if you have SAS 9.3,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 20, 2016 0

A fun analysis of regional cultures in the US

Are you from Yankeedom, The Far West, or somewhere in between? In this blog, I use SAS maps to explore some fun data about regional cultures in the U.S. I recently ran across an interesting article about Colin Woodward's book "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 18, 2016 0

Which stores will Walmart close in 2016?

You probably heard the recent announcement this past Friday that Walmart will be closing 269 stores. Are any closing near where you live? This blog shows some really cool SAS maps to let you drill-down into the data! I've seen a few maps showing which Walmart stores are closing, but they

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldJanuary 14, 2016 0

Fit Plot Customizations

A customer wants to use PROC REG to fit a simple regression model but display in the fit plot markers that differentiate groups of individuals. Click on a graph to enlarge. Before we see how to do that, let's look at some simpler examples. The following step fits a linear

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJanuary 12, 2016 0

CandleStick Chart with SAS 9.2

Let us start the new year by taking a trip back in history to SAS 9.2, first released in 2008, and the first SAS release that included the new ODS Graphics software including GTL and SG procedures. While we have recently released the third maintenance on SAS 9.4 (SAS 9.40M3),

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Data Visualization

SAS Glasgow Hackathon 2015

Felix BillsonJanuary 12, 2016 0

From Hackathon to Demo Day, students showcase clever solutions

When SAS Scotland gave students 48 hours to build a prototype computer system to help increase police effectiveness, nine teams accepted the challenge. The venue was the University of Glasgow's Hackathon, one of the largest student hackathons in the UK, attracting 200 attendees. SAS Scotland has co-sponsored the event for the past three

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 11, 2016 0

Need help picking lottery numbers?

What strategy do you use to pick your lottery numbers? Do you suspect that the future winning numbers might be somehow related to the past winning numbers? If so, this blog's for you! The Powerball lottery jackpot is up to about $1.4 billion - the largest lottery jackpot there has

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Government | Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 28, 2015 0

Dual Axis Graph with Zero Equalization

An interesting question came up recently, where a colleague wanted to create a bar line chart with Revenue on the Y axis and Profit on the Y2 axis. The Revenues were all positive, but the Profit had positive and negative values. Some data I generated is shown on the right. Creating this

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 23, 2015 0

Box Plot with Stat Table and Markers

A Box Plot is very popular to view the distribution of an analysis variable with one or more classifiers. Also, everyone wants to customize the graph in different ways. One recent request was for creating a box plot by category and group along with the display of various statistics and overlaid

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 23, 2015 0

Is holiday spending up or down?

I was reading through Deloitte University Press' 2015 Holiday Spending survey - the results were interesting, but their graph made you jump through mental hoops to understand the data. So of course I used SAS to create a simpler version of the graph, so you'll have more time for holiday shopping!

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Data Visualization

Brownie ToffeebellsDecember 21, 2015 0

Santa, may I please share this data visualization with you?

Hidely-hodely, everyone! As you might imagine, the size and variety of the gift inventory at the North Pole puts Wal-Mart to shame. And while we’ve been at this for hundreds of years, we still make too many of some things and not enough of others. No elf can forget the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 16, 2015 0

Release the fourth one first, they did!

If you're just a casual Star Wars fan, you might be confused about the order of the movies. Here's a SAS graph that will help you make sense of it all, before Episode VII comes out this week! If you'd like to see how I created this custom graph, here's a

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 9, 2015 0

How do your favorite SNL cast members stack up?

Saturday Night Live has been on television for about as long as most of us have been old enough to stay up and watch it (since 1975). Therefore, when I saw that Rolling Stone had ranked all the cast members throughout the show's history, I knew this was going to

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 6, 2015 0

Boxplot with Connect using Annotate

In the previous article I described a way to create a box plot with multiple connect lines using SAS 9.40M1 or later release . I created the graph using SGPLOT with VBOX and overlaid SERIES statements. Such an overlay of a basic plot on the VBOX statement is supported starting

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 4, 2015 0

Boxplot with connect

This blog post is motivated by a post by a user on the communities page about creating a box plot with colored boxes by category and multiple connect lines. Normally, a box plot can be drawn by category, with a single connect line for one of the statistical values of

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 1, 2015 0

Where is your favorite wine made?

Here in the US, California is known as "wine country" - but I was wondering what other states make wine, and whether there have been any big changes in recent years. This seemed like a good excuse for some graphical analytics... My previous blog analyzed where various Thanksgiving foods were produced. I was

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeNovember 30, 2015 0

Histogram with Gradient Color

Recently a user posted a query on the SAS Communities page asking on how to create a histogram where the bins of the histogram are colored by the analysis variable using a three color ramp. Essentially, he wanted the bins to be colored from "Low" to "High" along the horizontal

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Data Visualization | Risk Management

VirtualOil Rolling Five-Year Portfolio

Ian JonesNovember 27, 2015 0

From boom to bust: Searching for sustainability in the new oil climate

Times have changed. As the oil industry shutters and sheds investments that made sense during the two-year period in which oil rode comfortably above $90, the market is establishing a new equilibrium at $40/barrel. This despite the fact that the Baker Hughes domestic rig count is down 64 percent. It’s

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