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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 Wilsey

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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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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Data Visualization

Cornelius KimmerAugust 4, 2015 0

Wie funktioniert eigentlich .... Stromnetzstabilität?

Netzstabilität im Stromnetz Wenn wir morgens aufstehen, schalten wir das Licht an, kochen einen Kaffee und backen Brötchen auf. Wie selbstverständlich funktionieren Beleuchtung, Kaffeemaschine, Backofen und weitere Geräte, also alle Stromverbraucher zuverlässig. Der Strom kommt ja aus der Steckdose! Doch woher bekommt die Steckdose den Strom und wer sorgt für

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 4, 2015 0

Marriage and divorce in the US: What do the numbers say?

I've heard lots of people quote statistics about marriage & divorce, but the experts don't always agree on what the data means. So I decided to run the data through a SAS graphical analysis, and see what the numbers say ... Before we get into the numbers though, let's have a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 3, 2015 0

Creating a better graph to show trade deficit

I recently saw a cool graph showing the US import/export trade deficit. But after studying it a bit, I realized I was perceiving it wrong. Follow along in this blog, to find out what the problem was, and how I redesigned the graph to avoid it. I was looking through dadaviz.com

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldJuly 31, 2015 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Modifying Dynamic Variables in ODS Graphics

If you are familiar with the output delivery system (ODS), then you know that you can modify the tables and graphs that analytical procedures display by modifying table and graph templates. Perhaps less familiar is the fact that you can also modify dynamic variables. Tables and graphs are constructed from

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 31, 2015 0

Map of US domestic cannabis eradication

In my quest for interesting data to graph, I found some Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) data on US domestic cannabis eradication. Does the data say anything interesting? Read on to find out! ... While doing some searches for other data, I happened across a table on the DEA website titled

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Data Visualization

Simon KirbyJuly 30, 2015 0

How insurers can take a giant leap forward with big data

Oh, how times have changed during my 20-plus years in the insurance industry. Data wasn’t a word we used much back in the 80s and 90s, unless of course you worked in those arcane and mysterious IT data centres. Even amidst the computerisation of the insurance industry in the 80s, many

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 29, 2015 0

Unicode in Formatted Data - SAS 9.40M3

SAS 9.4 Maintenance release 3 was released on July 14. The ODS Graphics procedures include many important, useful and cool features in this release, some that have been requested by you for a while. In the next few articles, I will cover some of these features. Last time I covered

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 29, 2015 0

50 million illegal aliens apprehended in the US

There's been quite a bit of controversy about the number of undocumented immigrants in the US lately - for example, Ann Coulter claims that number is 30 million, whereas others claim it's about 11 million (readers of my blog are data-savvy, and would dig into the details of such claims,

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 28, 2015 0

Was the dress blue ... or was it teal, sky, turquoise, or spindrift?

I saw the dress photo as blue & black. If you're a female, even if we perceived the exact same color, you might might not have said 'blue & black'. That's because women have a larger color vocabulary than men, and you might have elaborated on exactly which blue and

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Leo SadovyJuly 28, 2015 0

Why build models?

We are all modelers. Whenever you plan, you are building a model. Whenever you imagine, you are building a model. When you create, write, paint or speak, you first build in your head a model of what you want to accomplish, and then fill in the details with words, movements

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 23, 2015 0

Only brush the teeth you want to keep

When I was a kid, I remember a motivational poster on my dentist's wall that said "You don't have to brush all your teeth -- only the ones you want to keep." That poster really made me think, and brush my teeth! And now that I'm a data-analyst adult, I think

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 20, 2015 0

Analysis of serial killings in the US

I recently came across some very interesting data on serial killings ... but it was in tabular/text form. This seemed like an invitation for me to create some graphs that make it easier to understand the data. It seems many people have a morbid curiosity about serial killers. For example, some

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJuly 16, 2015 0

Integrating SAS reports with Google maps: two-pane solution

➤ 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 MatangeJuly 15, 2015 0

Big Data Visualization

Big data is a popular topic, with multiple articles about the analysis of the same. Today, "Big Data" is measured in multiple of Tera Bytes, and SAS provides special software for analysis and visualization of Big Data - Visual Analytics. When data is very big, it may be meaningless, let alone inefficient, to plot

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 9, 2015 0

Bald eagles return to the United States!

Bald eagles, the national bird of the United States, came perilously close to becoming extinct here, but are now making a comeback! Let's look at the data with a SAS map! When I was growing up in the 1970s & 80s here in North Carolina, I spent a lot of time

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Data Visualization

Dr. Jim GoodnightJuly 8, 2015 0

Disaster relief efforts show promise of analytics and seemingly unrelated data sources

As monsoon season begins, many Nepal earthquake victims have shelter over their heads thanks in part to an unlikely intersection of two SAS global development projects. The first project is with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). IOM is the first responder to any crisis that displaces people. IOM provides

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