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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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Analytics | Data Visualization

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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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 13, 2014 0

Why people have 12 pairs of shoes and no health insurance

Why do people have 12 pairs of shoes and no health insurance? - Perhaps the consumer price index data can help explain it ... Great minds think alike - I recently saw a plot of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data that Layne Ainsworth had created, and it reminded me

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 9, 2014 0

US labor participation rate and the 'axis of evil'

Can the selection of the axis range in a graph influence how you perceive the data? Let's find out with a "Labor Participation Rate" graph ... Medical doctors have traditionally taken the Hippocratic Oath, swearing to practice medicine honestly. I have often thought that people creating graphs should swear a

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Analytics | Data Visualization

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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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 5, 2014 0

What's the real U.S. unemployment rate?

Which would you rather see - a table of numbers, or a nice graph? When it comes to unemployment numbers, I vote for the graph! The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides several tables of data about the U.S. workforce. One such table (Table A-15) provides several different alternative measures

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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

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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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

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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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

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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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

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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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonApril 16, 2014 0

Why learn SAS instead of Excel? ... Medicare data

Would you like to analyze the 9 million lines of Medicare payment data that was recently made public? You'll need lots of luck if you're planning to use Excel ... whereas this is the kind of thing SAS was built for! Here's a sneak-peek at what the text data looks

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonApril 15, 2014 0

Cool SAS infographic, with custom 3-D effect

Here's an example that shows SAS is more than just a tool to create analytic graphics - it can also be used to create 'cute' infographics! :) An infographic that recently caught my eye had a fleet of airplanes stretching from overhead out to the horizon, along with some interesting

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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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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 28, 2014 0

How could SAS be used to help find missing planes?

I'm sure that anyone in the world would do whatever they could to help find the missing Flight 370 ... and this is my attempt to do what I can. In my previous blog post, I showed how SAS could be used to visualize the locations where planes have disappeared. This blog

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Insurance | Travel

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 28, 2014 0

SAS Global Forum 2014 Graph Presentations

SAS Global Forum 2014 was a great success, with the SAS Studio, a web based SAS interface garnering a lot of attention. SAS also announced the availability of SAS Analytics U, providing free web based access to SAS analytics for students, faculty and researchers. The conference had multiple paper and Super demos on data

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 21, 2014 0

Airplanes that have disappeared without a trace!

With all the recent news reports about the missing Flight 370, I wondered what other airplanes have disappeared without a trace ... and I used SAS to visualize that data! There was in interesting infographic on the Bloomberg website that sort of answered my question, but their map just had

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Insurance | Travel

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonMarch 19, 2014 0

Creating SAS graphs for an international audience

Have you ever eaten a biscuit, and thought to yourself "well, it ain't like momma fixed it"? (Alan Jackson fans will get that one!) ... So it is with food, and so it is with numbers and dates in graphs! Back in college, when I lived in the Alexander International Dorm

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 17, 2014 0

Getting Ready for SAS Global Forum 2014

The SAS Global Forum 2014 is just around the corner starting Sunday, March 23 and I am eager to attend creative presentations from SAS users on ODS Graphics. Adoption of SG procedures, GTL and ODS Graphics Designer is growing among users and I see many promising papers. Papers by users: Something for Nothing!

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 12, 2014 0

Riddle: When is a bar chart really a pie chart?

Did you know that this Friday is Pi Day? How are you planning to commemorate this special day? :) Next year's Pi Day might even be more special than usual, being that it will contain: March 14, 2015 - 9:26:53. And if you realize the coolness of that (3.141592653), you might be

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Data Visualization

Jennifer MarchiMarch 7, 2014 0

Everyday visual analytics

Imagine you're a business analyst who just discovered a pattern or trend that could significantly help your organization. What do you do next? You share it. Using SAS® Visual Analytics, you've published your results to the Web and mobile device before, but this time you'd rather work with your findings in

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 5, 2014 0

Breaking Bad (data) with SAS!

In the Breaking Bad TV series, Walter White has an impressive lab where he secretly makes the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth). Wouldn't it be cool to use SAS to show the locations of all the clandestine meth labs in the US?!? Let's do it!... In this blog, I show you

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 1, 2014 0

Axes Synchronization

Often we need to plot multiple response variables on Y axes by a common variable on X axis. When the response variables are very different in magnitudes or format, we prefer to plot the variables on separate Y (Left) and Y2 (Right) axes. Here is some sample data with three response

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 27, 2014 0

Olympic graphs ... on steroids!

Michele Ensor recently posted a wonderful blog with a graph of the 2014 Winter Olympics medal count. I'm going to further refine that graph, making it an Olympic graph ... on steroids! :) Here is Michele's graph: First, let's give it a few simple cosmetic changes. I always like to have

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