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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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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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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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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

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 Visualization

Thomas WendeMay 16, 2014 0

Mit Visual Analytics: Eigene Produkte bei Amazon, Ebay und Co. suchen

Lesen Sie jetzt exklusiv: Die Geheimnisse von Visual Analytics - Teil 1: die eigenen Produkte bei Amazon, Ebay und Co. suchen mit VA. Ich war schon immer ein Spielkind. Vielleicht lag es daran, dass mein Opa Automechaniker war und ich schon als 3-Jähriger wusste, was ein 17er Schlüssel ist. Vielleicht ist

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Robert AllisonMay 14, 2014 0

A visual analysis of rising sea levels

In light of the recent reports that glaciers in Antarctica are melting, what SAS graphs might be useful in analyzing the data?... When floating sea ice melts (such as at the North Pole), it doesn't raise the sea level - but when ice on land melts (such as glaciers at

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Robert AllisonMay 6, 2014 0

SAS Wonder Twin powers ... activate!

All my friends seem to be having twins these days (below is a picture of my friend Holly's twins, for example) - I wondered if I could use SAS to analyze this twinning trend ... When I was growing up, way back in the day, twins seemed to be rarity.

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Mary OsborneMay 4, 2014 0

May the Fourth Be With You!

I'm an avid Star Wars fan, and am cautiously optimistic about what J.J. Abrams intends to do in Star Wars VII. The cast for the movie was revealed earlier this week, and today is May the Fourth, an unofficial Star Wars holiday. You might be asking yourself what any of

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMay 4, 2014 0

The HIGHLOW Plot

SG Procedures and GTL provide you with a large set of plot statements, such as BarChart, ScatterPlot, BoxPlot and more. You can use them for the intended purpose, and all is well and good. However, the real fun starts when you leverage a plot to do something that was not

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Robert AllisonApril 29, 2014 0

Analyzing 60 years of tornado data with an animation

With tornadoes in the news lately, I wondered how I might could use SAS to analyze tornado data. How about animating 60 years of tornado path data? ... I was using Google to search for ways to analyze tornado data, and found an example on ustornadoes.com that animates the tornado

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Robert AllisonApril 28, 2014 0

Tornadoes: Picking up the pieces with SAS

Last night, here in the U.S., an outbreak of deadly tornadoes tore across several states. Unfortunately, nobody knows how to predict a tornado with certainty, but let's brainstorm on how SAS Software can help analyze the data in the aftermath of a natural disaster like this... Being a graph guy, the first

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Michael ThomasApril 25, 2014 0

Using virtual reality to understand big data

What if virtual reality technology allowed you to immerse yourself in big data? That could be your future – and sooner than you think. It happened in August 2013 at the University of Washington: the first direct brain-to-brain communication, with one researcher controlling another researcher’s brain over Skype. Maybe in

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Data Visualization

Andreas BecksApril 25, 2014 0

Das ist Visual Analytics!

So und nichts anders: Datenanalyse zur Vorbereitung der Entscheidungsfindung ist ein Spezialistenthema. Das muss ausschließlich den Profis überlassen werden. Daten in den Händen unbedarfter Fachanwender – vielleicht noch ohne IT- und Statistikwissen – sind gefährlich. Wenn Sie auch dieser Meinung sind, dann lesen Sie bitte nicht weiter!

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Jennifer Griess

Jennifer GriessApril 23, 2014 0

Connecting the dots between higher education and IT

In our hyper-connected world, information technology plays a key role in nearly every field and industry. Higher education is no exception, and that’s where EDUCAUSE comes in. This non-profit association works to advance higher education through the use of information technology. One of the primary ways EDUCAUSE achieves its goal

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonApril 22, 2014 0

How are your tax dollars spent? Let's graph it!

As I was doing my taxes, I wondered where the government is spending my tax dollars. And being a SAS user, I decided to find out using a graph ... I did a few Google searches on "tax graphs" and found one on the CNN web site that I liked - it

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 20, 2014 0

Labeled curves

Often, the topic of an article is motivated by a question from a user. A satisfactory resolution of the situation is usually a good indication of a topic that may be of interest to other users. On such question was posed to me by a user this weekend. He wanted to display fit

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 14, 2014 0

The BLOCK Plot

When you hear of a Scatter Plot or a Series Plot, you have a picture in your mind what we are talking about. But one of the plot statements available in GTL, and soon with SGPLOT, is the BLOCK plot. I am sure this leaves many users scratching their heads, wondering

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 6, 2014 0

G100 with SGPLOT

The GCHART procedure has a popular option called G100 to display all the subgroups in % format such that all the subgroup values add up to 100% for each group. Each subgroup is labeled with its own % values. SGPLOT procedure does not such an option, but with a little bit of

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