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Sanjay Matange 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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Data Visualization
Sanjay Matange 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 Matange 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 Matange 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 Matange 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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Ian Jones 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
Sanjay Matange 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
Sanjay Matange 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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Data Visualization
Sanjay Matange 0
Multi-Group Series Plots

The series plot is a popular way to visualize response data over a continuous axis like date with a group variable like treatment.   Here is some data I made up of a response value by date, treatment, classification and company that makes the drug.  The data is simulated as shown in the attached program

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Data Visualization
Andreas Becks 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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