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Robert AllisonNovember 6, 2015 0

Analytics claim this is the 20th most used word in English writing

Analytics claim this is the 20th most used word in English writing. What word, you might ask? This word. Which one? This one right here! You might think I'm trying to lead into an Abbott & Costello-style comedy routine, but I literally mean this word ... the word 'this'! As you can

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Education

Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiNovember 6, 2015 0

How to get buy-in for data and analytics projects

Do you have a great idea for an analytics project but need approval to get started? Or maybe you've had some initial successes with analytics and you're ready to expand the program. We talked to four analytics leaders in the higher education industry to get their advice on how to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 5, 2015 0

Chasing the Endless Summer

Endless Summer is both a surfing movie, and the idea that "if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer around the world, making it endless." Summer temperatures are fine if you're swimming & surfing, but I prefer slightly cooler temperatures - perhaps an

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Travel

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanNovember 3, 2015 0

SAS to the rescue: claiming your location on Google map by address only (without knowing latitude and longitude)

➤ DISCLOSURE! In June 2018 Google introduced changes to the way it handles its Maps platform. They now require API key in order to embed a map, plus Google Maps "projects" must now be associated with a billing account. Unless these new Google rules are met, Google maps described in

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 31, 2015 0

Adverse Events Graph with NNT

Early last year I wrote an article on how to create the "Most Frequent Adverse Events Sorted by Relative Risk" graph using the SGPLOT procedure. The key issue here is that such a graph normally displays two plots side by side, a scatter plot of the proportion values by treatment

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 29, 2015 0

Superman -vs- Batman ... Halloween smackdown!

Choosing the perfect Halloween costume can be a tough decision ... especially when it comes to choosing between two awesome favorites like Superman & Batman!?! I think we're gonna need a bigger boat! (and by 'boat' I mean analytical software, of course!) Let's start with Superman. This character has been around since

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 28, 2015 0

How a data scientist plans his trick-or-treat route

As I continue to apply analytics to various aspects of Halloween, I turn my attention to planning my trick-or-treat route ... Random picture: Here's a shot of my friend Sara's trick-or-treat crew. With tiny legs, and huge loads of candy, having an efficient route is very important! :) I started by

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Data Visualization

Tülay StecherOctober 26, 2015 0

Big Data Analytics ist so verführerisch wie Schokolade

Excel ist wie Schokolade: Je mehr Daten man reingibt, umso fetter und dicker werden die Tabellen. Und gerade jetzt im Big Data Zeitalter besteht sogar noch Suchtgefahr, weil man einfach nicht los davon kommt, immer mehr Daten in Excel zu stopfen, um sie schließlich zu analysieren - das klassische Schokoladenphänomen. Wir

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 26, 2015 0

Create Halloween images and learn SAS basics

Do you have fun being a computer geek, and programmatically creating holiday images? If so, then this blog's for you! In this example, I demonstrate how to take simple x/y coordinates, and create map polygons shaped like holiday images, that can be plotted using SAS/Graph's Proc GMap. Once you learn the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 23, 2015 0

Need help choosing a Halloween costume?

When I was a kid, I always found it difficult to pick a Halloween costume. Now that I'm older, perhaps I can use computers & analytics to make my decision (and yours) easier! ... There are several different schools of thought on Halloween costumes - for example, some like to

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Data Visualization

Annelies TjetjepOctober 21, 2015 0

A Shopaholic’s Guide to Analytics II.B

The Rule of Three is a writing principle that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things – Wikipedia. 3 Ps of success, Blind Mice, Little Pigs, Stooges, Musketeers, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, rings, pairs

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Retail

Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiOctober 20, 2015 0

The Impact of analytics in education

In my first post of the analytics in real life blog series, we heard four higher education customers discuss using SAS and why they chose SAS. Today we will hear the following three customers share the positive impact of using SAS and analytics for their users and institution. Karl Konsdorf, Acting

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 20, 2015 0

Get the inside scoop for your Halloween candy selection

It's that time of year again - time to choose what Halloween candy to buy for the trick-or-treaters! This is always a tough decision that has me angsting in the candy aisle. And if selecting the perfect candy wasn't enough pressure, my city (Cary, NC) was recently recognized as #1 on

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 16, 2015 0

Axis Customizations

All axis customization features are always welcome. Especially since SGPLOT statements can often be used to create non standard graphs, having the ability to customize the axes is important. This article presents ways in which you can customize the discrete axes. By default, the x axis will try to display the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 15, 2015 0

Where can a vegetarian get some protein around here?!?

More and more of my friends seem to be eating less and less meat, for various reasons (such as religious, health, social conscience, weight loss, personal preference, cost savings, etc). So I thought I would put together a graph to help them find alternate sources of protein. While searching for

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Health Care

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 9, 2015 0

How trendy is your hipster beard?

The #1 rule of any self-respecting hipster is to not claim to be a hipster. Therefore, can there even be such a thing as a hipster beard, or hipster beard data? I contemplated this perplexing question, as I stroked my pirate beard. Since fashion trends tend to be cyclical, perhaps

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Data Visualization | Risk Management

Ian JonesOctober 8, 2015 0

Oil portfolio restructured and back in the money

Though crude oil prices edged up last week, the market remains well below VirtualOil’s original $50 strike price, meaning the hypothetical portfolio’s production is shut in in the spot market again. Oversupply continues while China GDP forecasted growth is slowing. Given the market outlook, the VirtualOil board has decided to

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 6, 2015 0

Noah's Ark found ... in South Carolina!

I remember being intrigued by the movie In Search of Noah's Ark, when I was a kid back in the 1970s. They claimed to have definitively found the ark ... but of course, since then several other people claim to have found it in other locations. Therefore I don't feel too

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Insurance

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 5, 2015 0

Building a better income inequality graph

I hear a lot of talk about income inequality in the US ("the rich get richer..." and such) - especially as elections approach. I also see a lot of graphs, and they all seem to define their numbers slightly differently. I'm not in a position to improve the way income

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Government

Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiOctober 2, 2015 0

How and why education customers are using SAS

Recently, I interviewed four higher education customers to hear firsthand how each is using analytics in real life (IRL). In this blog series, we will learn how educators are using analytics, why they chose SAS, and the impact it has had on their users and their institutions. In addition, they

Data Visualization

Trent SmithOctober 1, 2015 0

Hey, hey mama, it ain’t easy being a black dog

Black Dog Syndrome may sound like the clinical term for a Led Zeppelin earworm but, as any animal shelter worker will tell you, it actually describes the challenge black dogs face in getting adopted. This phenomenon is in the spotlight today because Oct. 1 is National Black Dog Day! Black

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 1, 2015 0

Visualizing the 500 biggest corporations in the US

Every year, Fortune magazine compiles a list of the 500 largest US corporations - called the Fortune 500. Their list was a bit difficult to digest in text-form, so I thought I'd try using some maps & graphs on the data ... For a map analysis, I thought it would

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Data Visualization

Andreas BecksSeptember 29, 2015 0

SAS Big Data Lab: Innovationslabore für Use Cases - Teil 2

Das Big Data Lab ist der beste Weg hin zum innovativen und profitablen Umgang mit Big Data. Aber welche organisatorischen Weichenstellungen führen eigentlich zum Erfolg? In meinem letzten Blog habe ich die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren eines Innovationslabors für datenbasierte Use Cases skizziert: Experimentieren erlauben, Agilität ermöglichen und schnelles Scheitern (als Chance!)

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 28, 2015 0

I'm a data guy, not a basketball fan!

I get several requests and recommendations for analyzing sports data. I'm not a big sports fan ... but when did I ever let that stop me! When I find interesting data, I like to graph it! Before we get into the nitty-gritty data analysis, here is a picture of my friend Jennifer's daughter

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 23, 2015 0

Are you a geography expert? Try this quick quiz!

My blog posts focus on visual data analysis, and many of them use geographical maps. Therefore I hope you will have fun with a quick geography quiz, which I created using SAS/Graph ... And what, you might

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 21, 2015 0

Response Colors and Thickness

Often there is a need to display more than one response simultaneously for a bar chart, series plot or a vector plot. SAS 9.40M3 adds the options you need to get such results using two new options COLORRESPONSE and THICKRESPONSE where applicable. The Bar Chart on the right shows the frequency

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 21, 2015 0

How to plot your GPS tracking data on a SAS map

These days many devices (such as smart phone apps, Fitbits, Apple watches, dog tracking collars, car gps, hiking gps, teen/car trackers, etc) can track your location, and provide you with standard/canned ways to analyze the data. This blog post shows how I created a custom SAS map of the tracking

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Travel

Data Visualization

Average finish times by age group for the New York City Marathon

Paul VezzettiSeptember 17, 2015 0

Am I running slower as I get older?

I read an article recently discussing how runners inevitably slow down with age, particularly after 50. Data from the New York Marathon and Boston Marathon back this up with generally flat average finishing times for ages 20-49 followed by a steady, almost exponential, increase after 50. I haven’t reached the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 17, 2015 0

Talk Like a Pirate day ... and paddling from Cuba to the US

I just returned home from an expedition/adventure boat trip to Cuba, and Talk Like a Pirate day is coming up this Saturday - what a combination for an interesting blog! I hope you enjoy a few pictures, and a bit of data analysis on these topics! A couple of weeks ago,

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Data Visualization

Tamara FischerSeptember 16, 2015 0

Ich habe einen Traum…

...... ein Traum von einer Welt, in der wir Menschen uns die immer größer werdende Fülle von Daten zu Nutze machen können, um die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen - Entscheidungen, die durch analytisches Wissen gestützt werden. Jeden Tag sammeln wir Daten – man sagt, das digitale Universum verdoppelt sich alle zwei

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