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

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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

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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

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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

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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German

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 13, 2015 0

Something Different - SAS 9.40M3

The SGPLOT procedure provides great tools to create all kinds of graphs for all domains from business to clinical.  However, every so often, we need to create visuals that are not exactly graphs, but more like flow or network diagrams, or something entirely unique.  Some users may have tools to

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Data Visualization

Ian JonesSeptember 4, 2015 0

Time for VirtualOil 2.0?

Since our last VirtualOil update in May, oil prices have continued to take a beating. As the chart of the rolling five-year portfolio shows, much of our strip of options is now out-of-the-money and the average value per barrel of that optionality has sunk below $7. No surprise then that

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeSeptember 2, 2015 0

Broken Axis Redux

Often when the data includes some extreme difference in measures or some outliers, the plot of the data points can get skewed due to the need to accommodate the extreme outliers.  The bulk of the observations get squeezed into a smaller region of the plot.  While this may be useful

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeAugust 24, 2015 0

A Macro for Polygon Area and Center

A few weeks back I saw a couple of posts on the Communities page from users wanting to find ways to compute the area of an general polygon and also the center of the area.  I felt such features likely existed somewhere in the SAS/GRAPH set of procedures, so I asked our resident

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Data Visualization

Dr. Biljana Belamaric WilseyAugust 21, 2015 0

"Analytics": meaning and use

As a linguist, I am fascinated with words, their meanings and use. So when I recently saw the words “learning analytics” in a conference paper title, I started thinking about the prevalence of the word “analytics” itself. In the last decade, we have preceded “analytics” with many modifiers referring to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 21, 2015 0

How is electricity generated in your state?

I recently saw an article on washingtonpost.com showing what methods are used to generate electricity in each state. The data was interesting enough that I decided to try my hand at graphing and mapping it with our SAS software. Read along to see what I kept the same, and what

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 18, 2015 0

What areas do venture capitalists invest in medical research?

The Wall Street Journal recently published a study of the top 17 medical areas (or body parts) that venture capitalist investments are likely to benefit. They used graphs to summarize the results, but "the graph guy" in me just couldn't resist trying to improve them. Did my improvements help? -

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Health Care

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 17, 2015 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Annotating multiple panels

In the past few weeks, I have written two posts on SG annotation and on saving and then modifying the graphs that analytical procedures produce:   Modifying dynamic variables in ODS Graphics   Annotating graphs from analytical PROCs Today, I finish this series with one more post. This one shows how you

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeAugust 12, 2015 0

Bar Chart on Interval Axis - SAS 9.40M3

When we first released GTL and SG Procedures back with SAS 9.2, Box Plots and Bar Charts would always treat the category axis as discrete.  We realized soon enough that we need to support box plots on scaled interval axes for many clinical applications, and this was added in SAS

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 12, 2015 0

Hadoop releases - here's the timeline graph!

There's a lot of buzz about Hadoop these days. I started checking into it, and there seemed to be a gazillion releases. So, being The Graph Guy, I decided to create a graph to make it a little easier to digest! During my search for Hadoop information, I found the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 11, 2015 0

The world's most valuable sports teams

There's big money in professional sports these days - we're talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you... I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world's most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Leo SadovyAugust 11, 2015 0

Visualization – Worth a thousand words

Why visualization? Several reasons, actually, the most compelling being that sometimes visualization literally solves the problem for you. I remember an exercise in eighth grade English class where we were asked to describe, in words only, an object set in front of us with sufficient clarity such that our classmates,

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 10, 2015 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Annotating graphs from analytical PROCs

There are many ways to modify the graphs that SAS creates. Standard graph customization methods include template modification (which most people use to modify graphs that analytical procedures produce) and SG annotation (which most people use to modify graphs that procedures such as PROC SGPLOT produce). However, you can also

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeAugust 6, 2015 0

Customize Legend Entries - SAS 9.40M3

We all want to customize our graphs just so, and have our personal preferences.  Over the past few releases SG Procedures and GTL have added options to customize the look and feel of our graphs.  In this article, I will describe new ways in which you can customize your legends.  We will also see some

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