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CupidFebruary 11, 2015 0

You know what Cupid loves? Money. Lots of money.

Look, I’ve been at this game a long time. I set Cleopatra and Marc Antony on a path to ruin. I set J-Lo and Marc Anthony on a path to eternal happiness … until they bought a stake in the Miami Dolphins. No one escapes that dumpster fire unscathed. My

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 6, 2015 0

Geographical hotspot visualization of election data

I'm ramping up my visualization skills in preparation for the next big election, and I invite you to do the same! Let's start by plotting some county-level election data on a map... To get you into the spirit of elections, here's a picture of my friend Sara's dad, when he was

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 3, 2015 0

Which North Carolina state park is trending?

North Carolina is one of those lucky states that has a huge variety of scenic destinations, such as mountains, piedmont, coastal plains, beaches, and 'outer banks' islands. We have state parks in all of these areas, but can you guess which state park has been trending the most during the past

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJanuary 31, 2015 0

Cancer Deaths Averted

Significant progress in reduction of Cancer mortality is shown in a graph that I noticed recently on the Cancer Network web site. This graph showed the actual and projected cancer mortality by year for males. The graph is shown on the right. The graph plots the projected and actual numbers

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 30, 2015 0

Is Google Fiber coming to your city?

Google recently announced that they will be adding Google Fiber high speed network and TV to my area. This was great news, because it will give us more choices ... and a little competition among providers tends to make them all 'try harder' to please the customer. :-) I was curious what other

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 29, 2015 0

Eating liver and prepping data: How are they similar?

This week, I finally ate some liver, for the first time in over 20 years - and I realized it's a lot like prepping data (which I'll explain in this blog post). Here are a few of the similarities: They're both good for you. Thinking about them makes you go

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 26, 2015 0

Thinking about retiring in another country?

Have you ever thought about retiring in another country, where your money might go further? Well here's some quantitative data to help you make an informed decision! ... First, to get you in the mood, here's a picture of my friend Erik checking out the prices at a pedal-powered food

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 22, 2015 0

What's the solar power potential in your area?

Have you ever wondered whether the area where you live is a good location for producing solar power? Let's create a SAS map to help find out! To get you in the right frame of mind, here is an awesome picture of some Arizona sunshine, that my good friend Eva

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 19, 2015 0

Millennials will outnumber Baby Boomers in 2015

To get into the mood for this blog post, you should first listen to the music video of The Who singing My Generation... I guess everybody has 'their generation' and here in the U.S. the most famous generation has been the Baby Boomers. Many companies have tried to design products they

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJanuary 19, 2015 0

Displaying Unicode Symbols in Legend

Including special Unicode symbols into the graph is getting more popular. In general, SG procedures support Unicode strings in places where these strings are coded into the syntax such as TITLE, FOOTNOTE. These support Unicode characters and also the special {SUP} and {SUB} commands. This is because these statements are rendered

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 15, 2015 0

Using SAS analytics to monitor blog posts

As a blogger, I often wonder whether my blog posts are 'successful' - and being a graph guy, I like to visually analyze the data, to try to answer that question. The most common measure of a blog post is probably the number of times it was viewed, so I guess

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 14, 2015 0

Don't let difficult graph legends get your goat

Is this blog post about techniques to use on difficult graph legends, or is it about goats? The answer is both! But first, to get you into the proper mood, here is a picture my friend, Mark, took of some cute goats. And some links to YouTube videos about goats

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJanuary 14, 2015 0

Marker Symbols

There has been much discussion on the SAS Communities page on usage of different symbols in a graph. The solutioin can vary based on the SAS release. New features have been added at SAS 9.4 releases to SG Procedures and GTL that make this very easy. With SAS 9.4M1, almost any combination is

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Data Visualization

Guido OswaldJanuary 14, 2015 0

SAS Analytics in der Cloud - wenn's mal wieder schnell gehen muss

Cloud Computing hat (zum Glück) den Hype schon hinter sich und wird nun langsam 'erwachsen' (auch wenn das z.T. noch mit langen Wartungsfenstern passiert...). Zeit einmal nachzusehen was denn eigentlich SAS so alles in diesem Umfeld macht.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 12, 2015 0

Using SAS to help locate the 100 best restaurants in the US

I recently read an article that listed the 100 best restaurants in the US - but the article didn't have a map. I decided to use my SAS skills to change that! When it comes to restaurants, I eat out a lot (and by 'a lot' I mean I never

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Hospitality | Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 5, 2015 0

Most common New Year's resolutions

Can you guess the 5 most common New Year's resolutions? Compare your guesses to the survey results!... Being a data meister, I'm always on the lookout for seasonal data. I recently did a Web search for "new year's resolutions" and found an interesting article on the You Gov UK website.

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJanuary 3, 2015 0

Custom Labels

Over the Christmas Holidays I saw an graph of agricultural exports to Russia in 2013. The part that caught my eye was the upper part of the graph, showing the breakdown of the trade with Russia as a horizontal stacked bar with custom labels. The value for each region / country

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 27, 2014 0

Scatter Plot with Stacked Histograms

Last week a user expressed the need to create a graph like the one shown on the right using SAS. This seems eminently doable using GTL and I thought I would undertake making this graph using SAS 9.3. The source data required to create this graph is only the

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 23, 2014 0

Is more alcohol consumed during winter months?

The BACtrack mobile breathalyzer company recently published a report purporting that "most alcohol consumed during winter months." I wondered if the data would tell the same story, after a slightly different interrogation ... Here's a portion of BACtrack's calendar chart of BAC levels (click it to see the full-size version). They

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 22, 2014 0

Santa's information dashboard - Version 2.0

How does Santa keep track of everything on his big night? I can't confirm or deny that he uses SAS software -- but if he does, it would look a lot like this! ... A couple of years ago, I blogged about a prototype dashboard that I wrote for Santa. This

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 17, 2014 0

Dual Response Axis Graphs

Often we need graphs that display two or more responses by the same category values. In many cases it is useful to plot both responses on the same response (Y) axis. This can be helpful to understand the data and compare the magnitudes side by side. This works when the scales

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Carmen GallagherDecember 16, 2014 0

Are you ready to graduate from spreadsheets to analytics?

Flexibility and nimbleness are terms synonymous with small and mid-sized businesses. They have the ability to react quickly to changing market conditions as they are made aware of them. Traditionally these businesses have lived in the world of spreadsheets - and why not? They are easy to use, very affordable

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 15, 2014 0

Where to find the cheapest gas

"Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go" ... and how much should we expect to pay for gasoline during the trip? Read this blog to find out! I recently wrote a blog post about some of the factors that impact the price of gasoline. The blog had

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Energy & Utilities | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization

two business people looking at ipad

Alan LipsonDecember 12, 2014 0

Making 'management by walking around' more productive

The idea of "management by walking around" has been around for a while. First brought to prominence in Tom Peters and Robert Waterman’s best-seller In Search of Excellence, the concept is that managers get out of their offices and meet employees in their work areas to get a sense of how

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 10, 2014 0

10 most annoying airline seatmate behaviors

I recently saw an interesting infographic (see partial screen-capture below) about the top 10 most annoying airline seatmate behaviors. But the infographic was one of those *long* spread out ones, that you have to scroll forever to see the whole thing. I decided to try to create a more efficient SAS

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeDecember 6, 2014 0

Graph Table

A common scenario is where we have a table of multiple measures over time. Here we have a simple example of Frequency and Response by Day. The Response is a linear function of the Frequency, as shown in the table on the left below. The shape of the data is

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 5, 2014 0

Plotting the Corruption Perceptions Index using SAS

I recently found some very interesting data - a numeric Corruption Perceptions Index for each country. And of course I just had to try and create my own SAS version... First, here's the original map on the transparency.org site. They mapped all the values using a yellow-orange-red gradient, the map

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Data Visualization

Steve MellgrenDecember 5, 2014 0

Data visualization: first, prepare your data

We are in the age of big data. But just because modern software makes it easy to handle large data volumes, it's worth asking: do you always need all that data? In other words, if your analytics software can accommodate and even thrive in this big data environment, does that mean

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonDecember 1, 2014 0

Bringing order to holiday shopping chaos

The holidays are sometimes chaotic, especially for those tasked with analyzing consumer shopping data! I would like to share a few tips on adding order to your chaotic data. SAS recently published an interesting article, sharing the results from a consumer survey. The infographics in the article showed high-level summary information, such as:

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