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Sanjay MatangeAugust 3, 2014 0

Legend Order in SGPLOT Procedure

This article is by guest contributor Lelia McConnell, SAS Tech Support. Several users have called recently to ask the question, “Can I reorder the legend entries on the bar chart that I created with PROC SPLOT?” Although there is no option that does this directly in PROC SGPLOT, the answer

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 1, 2014 0

Oh buoy! It's time for some Shark Week graphs!

With Discovery Channel's Shark Week starting on August 10, I decided to sink my teeth into some shark-attack data - I even found there were some shark attacks in the Midwestern US! Read on to learn the details... To get you into the shark mindset, here is a photo of an

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Data Visualization

Varsha ChawlaJuly 28, 2014 0

World Cup: Complete; Data visualizations: Endless

We’re not sure about you, but we just had the most thrilling, suspenseful, and fun month we’ve had in a while. The 2014 FIFA World Cup may be over, but we’re still amazed by not only the game outcomes and level of athleticism, but also by the wealth of interesting

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 27, 2014 0

Overlay Bar Charts

A couple of days back, Rick Wicklin forwarded me a link to an article on the BadHessian Blog on creating a Bar Chart using six different freeware packages in R, Python and Julia. The target bar chart was one produced by the Jetpack stat module with WordPress. The graph is shown below. The unique feature of

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 24, 2014 0

When did 'your music' become 'classic rock'

In this blog post, I put some classic rock song data under the SAS Analytics microscope, to see if I could get a better picture of exactly what is considered 'classic rock' these days... Michael Raithel recently pointed me to an interesting article/study about 'classic rock' music, and invited (or is

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJuly 24, 2014 0

Live Google maps in SAS -- multiple markers

➤ 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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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 22, 2014 0

I see spots ... sunspots!

The sun has gone eerily quiet, in the middle of what should be the height of the 11-year sunspot cycle... Here's a superb photo of some sunspots that Stephen A. Carr posted to the Telescope Addicts Facebook group - a group which I follow with great interest. (Thanks for allowing

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 21, 2014 0

Group order in GTL

This post could be titled something like "Everything you wanted to know about Group Order in GTL - and more." The group ordering shows up in three different ways in your graph. Assignment of attributes (color, marker symbol) to group values. Position of group values in the graph. Display of the group

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 18, 2014 0

Use SAS to help plan your next vacation!

SAS is great at helping make important business decisions - how about helping decide where to take your next vacation?... Here's a picture from one of my favorite vacations with my buddy Joe. As you can see, I like "nature vacations." Can you guess where this one was? (leave a comment with

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Data Visualization

Steve MellgrenJuly 10, 2014 0

Data visualization dos and don’ts

Data visualization tools are a great way to create impactful reports. A well designed report can give users an understanding of their data quickly and easily. And with tools like SAS® Visual Analytics, users can now quickly visualize and understand vast amounts of data. However, with all the visualization options

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 9, 2014 0

Live long and prosper ... but how long?

I bet a lot of SAS users know where the phrase "Live Long and Prosper" comes from ... but can we use SAS software to also help analyze 'how long'? This blog posting shows several different kinds of SAS graphs that can help answer such a question! Let's start with

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 8, 2014 0

Spirals

Spirals are cool. And useful. We use them every day without thinking about it. Every time the road turns from a straight line to a curve, we go through a transition spiral. Spirals allow us to change curvature in a steady increasing or decreasing fashion. Without a spiral, this

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 7, 2014 0

Where will the next earthquake strike?

This morning, a fairly strong earthquake struck southern Mexico - can SAS analyze past earthquake data to help predict future earthquakes?... I don't have any pictures of earthquake damage, but here's one I took of the main house/prop from the Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre here in North Carolina - I imagine this

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 2, 2014 0

Forecasting sharknadoes with SAS

Everyone is intrigued by natural disasters - can we predict the likelihood of multiple disasters happening simultaneously?... My friend Rochelle is an avid SCUBA diver - here's a photo of a shark she got to 'smile for a picture' on a recent dive trip: Rochelle was asking if I could use SAS to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 30, 2014 0

Analytics, and winning soccer (fútbol) teams!

The old saying KISS (Keep It Simple) can be applied to just about anything, including sports analytics. Here I use SAS to create some simple charts to analyze a winning soccer team... To get you into the right mood, here is a picture of my friend Jennifer's dog, who loves soccer :) In

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 29, 2014 0

Proportional Euler Diagram

The topic of VENN diagrams had come up a while ago. At that time, I thought it may be interesting to build a proportional VENN diagram. But, reading up on VENN Diagrams, I learned that VENN diagrams represent all intersections of N sets, regardless of whether there are actually any observations in one

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 26, 2014 0

Graphs are easy in SAS University Edition

By now you have heard all about the SAS(R) STUDIO software that provides access to the power of SAS analytics in a Web browser. The SAS(R) University Edition is also available free for higher education teaching, learning and research. This software includes ODS Graphics software for creating graphs. You can

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Data Visualization

Guido OswaldJune 26, 2014 0

Präzise Unternehmensentscheidungen auf Basis Big Data

Wozu genau brauche ich eigentlich Big Data? Ach ja - stimmt - um meine Analysen zu verbessern. Und warum mache ich nochmal Analytik auf Big Data (Big Data Analytics)? Die Antwort ist noch viel einfacher: Von der akademischen Anwendungen vielleicht einmal abgesehen, ist das eigentliche Ziel die datenbasierte Entscheidungsfindung. Im privaten

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 22, 2014 0

Swimmer plot

At PharmaSUG 2014 in San Diego, I had the pleasure of attending "Swimmer Plot: Tell a Graphical Story of Your Time to Response Data Using PROC SGPLOT", by Stacey Phillips. In this paper, Stacey presented an interesting graph showing the effects of a study drug on patients' tumor size. Stacey

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 16, 2014 0

Grouped Timeline

Recently, a user posed a question on how to plot stacked frequencies on a time axis. The data included frequencies of different viruses by week. The data is modified to preserve confidentiality and is shown below. The user's first instinct was to use a bar chart with stacked groups. This works for automatically computing frequencies

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 13, 2014 0

How many Friday the 13th will we have this year?

Yes, I use SAS for everything - even determining how many more Friday the 13th we have this year... ----- I woke up this morning (June 13, 2014) and realized it was Friday the 13th. We haven't had one in a while (not since last year, actually), and I got to

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 11, 2014 0

Tracking sea turtles with SAS

SAS software can be used for many things - here's how you could use it to help save endangered sea turtles! You've seen SAS used to track endangered wildlife by the shape of their footprints, and help run Texas Parks & Wildlife. Now, how about tracking the movements of (and thereby helping

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 7, 2014 0

Lab Values Panel

It was almost two weeks ago that I got started making a display for lab tests for a subject, based on a graph I saw on the web for an article on this blog. This graph is a part of a larger panel display of the lab values for a

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Data Visualization

Ian JonesJune 6, 2014 0

Trade Surveillance: Watching you watching me

“Technological innovation is no longer a choice: it is an imperative.” So said Scott O’Malia, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, about trade surveillance during his keynote address at the recent SAS-sponsored New Risk in Energy 2014 conference in Houston. He was attempting, as he has before, to spur

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJune 6, 2014 0

Spice up SAS output with live 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 MatangeJune 5, 2014 0

Report from PharmaSUG 2014

Just getting back from PharmaSUG 2014 in San Diego. The conference was great, both inside and outside. The organizers ordered up some great weather for the Padres game and also for dinner on the flight deck of the Midway Carrier. Our focus here being on graphics, we were all extremely gratified by the presentations in

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 3, 2014 0

Learn more about SAS and the state where it's made!

This blog post describes a neat example of some cool SAS capabilities, and also teaches you a little more about the state where SAS software is made... Here at the SAS headquarters in Cary, NC, the main TV news channel is WRAL TV5. And my favorite segment during the news is Scott

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 21, 2014 0

Planning meteor showers around your busy schedule!

Do you “wish upon a star” that you had a better way to sync up meteor showers with your busy schedule? … Here’s a great SAS calendar chart that can help! There’s been a lot of talk about the possible new meteor shower coming up this weekend. The Earth will

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Data Visualization

Varsha ChawlaMay 20, 2014 0

Three visualization mistakes to avoid

Do you ever look at a chart or graph and think about what it’s really trying to reveal? All the time, right? Visualizations are useful because they allow us to analyze information much quicker than if we were to look at the raw data by itself. I say this with

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 16, 2014 0

How cold was it? - It was so cold that...

As you might have guessed, this is a blog post about cold temperatures, and ice! Sometimes ice is a great thing. Here's a picture of my freezer, for example (don't judge - I'm a bachelor!) .. And sometimes ice is a beautiful but dangerous thing, as this picture of my

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