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Data Visualization

Get the right information, with visual impact, to the people who need it

Robert AllisonJanuary 14, 2014 0

Find out what 'holiday' your birthday is on!

Every day of the year is an official 'national day' for something - here's a SAS chart to help you find which bizarre 'national day' falls on your birthday! I recently read an article that lists weird and unconventional national days. It was very interesting, but I found the data

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 8, 2014 0

Creating 'pretty' maps with SAS

When you create maps, you are typically plotting data for analytics -- but you can also use SAS to create 'pretty' maps for background decorations (for posters, slides, presentations, etc). This blog shows you a few examples... A few years ago I noticed that the CNN Situation Room had a decorative

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Data Visualization

Prashant HebbbarJanuary 7, 2014 0

Data-driven Layouts in R's ggplot2 and ODS Graphics

Following Sanjay's cue (see “R U Graphing with SAS”), I tried creating data driven multi-cell graphs using R. I played with the lattice and ggplot2 packages. I found ggplot2 simpler to understand and use than lattice, but there are probably some trades offs. Data-driven layouts are referred to as 'faceting'

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