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 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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Retail

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

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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Retail

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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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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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanNovember 28, 2014 0

Drill, baby, drill—using SAS to drill down through Google maps

➤ 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 MatangeNovember 25, 2014 0

Fun with Bar Charts

As Sheldon Cooper would say, this is the first episode of "Fun with Charts".  I did not find a cool term like "Vexillology" and "Cartography" is taken by map making, so let us go with "Chartology". Yesterday, I saw a couple of interesting bar charts as shown on the right.  I thought

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Lloyd GobblerNovember 22, 2014 0

Thanksgiving data visualization from the White House turkey

Well, this is a kick to the giblets. I assumed when I was summoned to the White House it was in recognition of my tireless advocacy for turkey rights. I wasn’t expecting a press conference in the rose garden or anything, just a meet and greet with the prez and

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Tom MorseNovember 19, 2014 0

Patient-centered health care in the new health economy

Today’s healthcare system is under tremendous pressure to reduce overall costs without losing track of the patient. Legislative changes and challenging economic realities make it increasingly difficult to deliver both improved outcomes and cost savings for the most complex patients. The Physicians Pharmacy Alliance (PPA) recognizes the changing healthcare landscape

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Health Care

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeNovember 18, 2014 0

Axis Break Appearance Macro

Often, we have data where most of the observations are clustered within a narrow range, with a few outliers positioned far away.  When all the data is plotted, the axis is scaled to accommodate all the data, thus skewing the scale.  Techniques to handle such data have been addressed earlier

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 18, 2014 0

Hey! Where have you been?!?

There's recently been a "States I've Visited" application going around on Facebook, where users create a map showing all the US states they've visited, and then post it on their page for their friends to see. I wondered if SAS could do a better job?... Here's a screen-capture of one

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Travel

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Renato LuppiNovember 18, 2014 0

Yes, we have analytics: the brain game

Many vendors claim they have analytics, and a lot of users have embraced the belief that analytics is the way to go. But what does analytics really mean, especially to business users without statistics backgrounds, and how much do they need to know about analytics to be able to make

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeNovember 15, 2014 0

Clinical Graphs

This week I had the opportunity to present a 1/2 day seminar on creating clinical graphs using the SG procedures during an In-House SAS Users' group meeting.  I have presented this seminar quite a few times now, and I always learn something. The audience was very receptive, with some people

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 14, 2014 0

Are patent trolls finally on the decline?

Are you a legitimate hard-working company that has been threatened with a lawsuit, by a patent troll? If so, the graphs in this blog should make you happy! Speaking of 'happy' and 'troll' - here's a picture of a happy Troll Doll from my friend Hannah. Don't you just hate

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeNovember 6, 2014 0

Axis Thresholds

Have you ever wondered why sometimes a SGPLOT or GTL graph has markers drawn beyond the extreme tick and value on an axis and sometimes not?  And, if you prefer your graphs to always have tick values on the axis that cover the whole range of data, how can you

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonNovember 4, 2014 0

Sports analytics - visualize your results!

In sports these days, there's a lot more data to keep track of than just the score! How can you make sense of it all? Being the Graph Guy, of course I recommend graphing it! Here's an example that's up close and personal for me - dragon boat racing... Below

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeNovember 2, 2014 0

Bar with Statistics

One of the key benefits of using a horizontal bar chart is the ability to display statistics for each bar.  This is a popular feature for the HBAR statement with the SAS/GRAPH GCHART procedure.  So, let us review the options available to us to create such graphs using SGPLOT. The

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 30, 2014 0

Likert Graphs

Just this morning I received a request for a brief survey from Apple on my feedback about the new iPhone6+.  Yes, I finally got one, dead last in the family.  The survey followed the usual format, with a number of questions on what I like or dislike about it, with

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 28, 2014 0

Are you at risk? Which blood types do vampires prefer?

SAS software has long been used to help analyze 'risk' - what about using it to help determine your risk of being attacked by a vampire?!? On a previous Halloween, I was the victim of a Vampire attack. Here's the photographic proof... Being the most common O+ blood type, I

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Data Visualization

Gregor CastamereOctober 27, 2014 0

Behold, pathetic mortals, a vampire's data visualization dashboard

Greetings, insignificant souls. You may call me … Gregor Castamere. It is not my true name. I stalked this strip of land when it was called New Amsterdam. My family’s name is well known. I have lived for more than 600 years, concealing my terrible secret. I am a vampire.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization

Ian JonesOctober 24, 2014 0

Analytic benchmarking against a virtual oil portfolio

Volatility. It’s a business reality for energy market participants and it’s been a wild ride for the oil marketing business over the past few weeks. How has your energy risk data helped you navigate the recent increase in volatility and precipitous price drop? This month, we are launching a recurring

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 23, 2014 0

Tracking Ebola: Using SAS bubble maps

In a previous blog post, I showed how to layer colored areas on a SAS map to show both countries, and the areas within countries that had cases of Ebola. But as the Ebola epidemic has spread, more data has become available, and in this blog I show how to

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Health Care

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 23, 2014 0

HeatMap with Numeric and Discrete Variables

Heat maps are a great way to visualize the bi-variate distribution of data.  Traditionally, a heat may may have two numeric variables, placed along the X and Y dimension. Each variable range is sub divided into equal size bins to create a rectangular grid of bins.  The number of observations

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 19, 2014 0

Consistent Group Colors by Value

Getting consistent group colors across different data sets for a graph is a common topic of interest.   Recently a user wrote in to ask how to ensure that specific groups "values" for a bar chart get specific colors.  The group values may arrive in different order, or some may

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