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Robert AllisonMay 30, 2013 0

They say "Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery"... Therefore when I imitate Hans Rosling's famous world-data animation, it's not that I'm jealous, but that I'm paying homage to him! (OK, and maybe also a little bit jealous! LOL) Well, anyway, for those of you who haven't seen it,

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMay 23, 2013 0

Animation using SGPLOT

Often we want to visualize the relationship between variables over time. The understanding of such data can be improved by viewing the animated graph over time. With SAS 9.4, you can create animated graphs using the new animation options on the OPTIONS statement and the PRINTER destination. A popular example an

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMay 22, 2013 0

Using fast food prices as an index of purchasing power

I recently read an interesting article in The Economist, where they describe "The Big Mac index." This is an index they invented as a lighthearted guide to compare currencies in different countries. In their article they create a multi-panel display (similar to a dashboard) where they compare the index for several countries using

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Retail

Data Visualization

Andreas BecksMay 21, 2013 0

Heißes Herz und kühler Kopf - zwischen GWA Effie und Löwe

"And the winner is…" Ob der Branchen-Oskar für wirksame Marktkommunikationen, der "GWA Effie", oder die "Löwen von Cannes" für inspirierende Kreativität: Im Frühsommer ist es traditionell wieder an der Zeit, Preise zu verleihen* in der Marketing- und Werbebranche! Sicher: Kreative Leistungen und erfolgreiche Zielgruppenansprachen in klassischen Medien, im Online-Bereich oder im

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMay 16, 2013 0

Report from PharmaSUG 2013

The PharmaSUG 2013 conference in Chicago this week was awesome. From the perspective of graphics, there was great interest in using SG Procedures, Designer and GTL for building clinical graphs. It was nice to see many papers by users on how they are using these tools for creating graphs on a daily

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Data Visualization

Stefan HauckMay 14, 2013 0

Themendossier "Big Data" - Definition, Anwendungsszenarien und Hintergrundinformationen

Brauchen Sie noch Argumente für Big-Data-Anwendungen? Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung und gestern der Spiegel greifen das Thema auf und beleuchten Big Data mit Hinweis auf die positiven Aspekte der Technologie. Spätestens mit der Titelgeschichte im Spiegel ist Big Data bei der breiten Gesellschaft angekommen. Gerade der aktuelle Spiegel-Aufmacher wirkt

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMay 9, 2013 0

Clark Error Grid Graph

The SAS Global Forum conference last week was awesome. From the perspective of graphics, there were more papers from uses on graphics and ODS graphics then in recent times. I will post a summary shortly. One of the interesting papers was "#113-2013 - Creating Clark Error Grid using SAS/GRAPH and Annotate..."

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Data Visualization | SAS Events

Christina HarveyMay 3, 2013 0

Watch Now: “Google - Like” Maps in SAS®

Google holds the gold standard for maps and we have heard our users loud and clear. SAS will introduce enhanced mapping features in SAS Visual Analytics Explorer, SAS/GRAPH®, and other products.

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Data Visualization | SAS Events

Christina HarveyMay 1, 2013 0

Watch Now: Best Practices in Democratized Analytics

Justin Choy from SAS presents an overview of best practices for providing data to clients and users while also maintaining analytic integrity of models and processes.

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 22, 2013 0

Are you ready for SAS Global Forum 2013?

The 2013 SAS Global Forum is around the corner in San Francisco and the anticipation is building. Early indications are that attendee registration is up from last year, and we are looking forward to a great conference starting Sunday, April 28. It is great to see the large and diverse offering

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Data Visualization

Andreas GöddeApril 16, 2013 0

Visualisierung & Analytics - auf der Autobahn und im Skigebiet

Wer kennt das nicht, diesen Gedanken auf der Autobahn, wenn man lauter rote Bremslichter sieht: Was wollen die alle ausgerechnet hier?! Dabei hat man doch selbst alles richtig gemacht im Vorfeld. Morgens früh aufgestanden. Wetterbericht kurz nochmal gecheckt. Grünes Licht: Blue Sky ist angesagt, Neuschnee über Nacht. Hinzu kommt: Kein

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 14, 2013 0

Attributes Map - 3 Range Attribute Map

In the previous two articles we discussed Discrete Attribute Maps, and how these can be used to ensure that group attributes like color are consistently mapped to group values regardless of their position in the data. Now, let us take a look at the attributes map that allows you to

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Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization

Andreas BecksApril 11, 2013 0

Customer Analytics: Große Daten - kleine Schritte

Wenn es darum geht, mit den Methoden der Customer Analytics tiefere Einsichten in das Verhalten oder den Wertbeitrag der eigenen Kunden zu gewinnen, steht zunächst immer die Frage: Welche Daten benötigen wir? In welcher Qualität müssen die Daten vorliegen? Und schon hier setzt in vielen Fällen die Ernüchterung ein: "Unsere

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonApril 11, 2013 0

Creating fancy 'infographics' with SAS

I haven't seen an official definition of 'infographic' that I really like ... but in my mind it's something 1/2 way between data visualization & artwork. It borrows elements from graphs & dashboards, and combines that with an artistic poster. If you perform a Google image search on infographic you'll see

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Data Visualization

Stefan HauckApril 9, 2013 0

Leitthema "Datenvisualisierung" - Ihre Meinung zählt!

Die IT-Messe CeBit hat eines, die Hannover Messe hat es auch, also warum nicht das SAS Forum 2013: ein Leitthema. Etwas das den Kern der Veranstaltung aufnimmt und Orientierung schafft, den aktuellen Zeitgeist aufgreift und Impulse gibt, die über den eigentlichen Event hinausreichen. Ein Leitthema zeichnet sich aus als Thema zu dem man eine

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 6, 2013 0

Attributes Map - 2

Last week I wrote about how you can use the Discrete Attributes Map to ensure that group values with specific names are represented in the graph with specific colors or other visual attributes such as marker symbol or line pattern. This attributes map also supports a special keyword "OTHER" which can be used to

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeApril 2, 2013 0

Attribute Maps - 1

You created a graph of Response over Time by Severity where Severity has three levels, "Severe", "Moderate' and "Mild". How do you ensure that "Severe" is always red in your graph, regardless of the data order? Normally, when creating any graph with a GROUP role, the distinct group values are assigned the style

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 24, 2013 0

Custom Box Plots

A frequent question we get from users is how to create a box plot with custom whiskers lengths. Some want to plot the 10th and 90th percentile, while other want the 5th and 95th percentiles. The VBOX statement in the SGPLOT procedure does not provide for custom whiskers. Also, unlike GTL,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 21, 2013 0

Basketball tournaments, Moneyball, and sports analytics

A big part of "winning" these days (be it sports or a business) is performing analytics better than your competition. This is demonstrated in awe-inspiring fashion in the book (and movie) "Moneyball." And on that topic, I'd like to show you a few ways SAS can be used to analyze sports data

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Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 18, 2013 0

Controlling Point Labels on Series Plot

SG procedures and GTL use a collision avoidance algorithm to position data labels for a scatter or series plot. This is enabled by default. The label is preferably placed at the top right corner of the marker. The label is moved to one of the eight locations around the marker to

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Data Visualization

Thomas KeilMarch 14, 2013 0

Analytics kann jetzt jeder – live ausprobieren

Analytics klingt nach Mathestudium oder Informatik, zumindest aber etwas, das kompliziert ist, kaum jemand versteht und am Ende doch keiner wirklich braucht. Das war lange eine verbreitete Meinung – außerhalb der SAS-Community versteht sich. Mittlerweile haben auch die großen Marktbeobachter eingesehen, dass normales Business Intelligence zwar eine wichtige Grundlage ist,

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Wake county census block map, shaded by population

Robert AllisonMarch 14, 2013 0

Census block maps in SAS

I've heard many customers ask "Can SAS do/use/handle census block maps?" My answer was "of course!" ... but I never really had any examples to show/prove that. Well, now I do! :) First, you need to locate & download the shape files for the census blocks you're interested in plotting. For

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 13, 2013 0

Box with Scatter Overlay

A common request we have been often hearing is for display of the distribution of data as a box plot, along with some detailed information overlaid. For example, one may have ratings data of all the hospitals in a region by different specialty, and you want to view this distribution

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeMarch 9, 2013 0

Parametric Bar Charts

A parametric bar chart in SG Procedure and GTL parlance is a simplified version of the regular bar chart, where the data is assumed to be summarized prior to its usage inside the SG procedures or GTL. So, multiple occurrences of the same category and / or group combination is

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Data Visualization

Roland BrezinaMarch 7, 2013 0

Visual Analytics: Neue Verantwortung für Marketing, mehr Gestaltungsspielraum für Business Analysten

Innovative Technologien für Customer Insights Seit Jahren überzeugen Anbieter von Kundenmanagement- und Marketing-Lösungen die Anwender in Unternehmen, Analytics als DAS effektivitätssteigernde Mittel der Kundenansprache einzusetzen. Zu recht: Marketingabteilungen, die analytische und datenbasierte Konzepte und Lösungen anwenden, sind seit Jahren Vorreiter und Maßstab des Erfolges.

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeFebruary 28, 2013 0

Box Plot with URL links

Last week I was out to the 2nd Conference on Statistical Practice in New Orleans. It was a great opportunity to meet many users of SAS, R and other software and hear about their projects in applied statistics. I will write up my feedback on this conference soon. In the

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Data Visualization

Thomas WendeFebruary 27, 2013 0

Datenvisualisierung – oder wo kostet der Big Mac am meisten?

„Früher war alles besser!“ pflegen gerade Ältere immer wieder zu sagen. Da ich letztes Jahr die 40 überschritten habe, rutscht auch mir bisweilen dieser Satz raus. Was Datenvisualisierung betrifft, ist er allerdings definitiv falsch. Da ist nämlich heute alles besser.

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonFebruary 22, 2013 0

SAS analysis of the #1 most popular baby names

I'm sure that most of you have seen the really cool interactive Baby Name Voyager, right? If not, go have a look and try it out (be sure to plug in your name, and the names in your family, and so on). Here's a screen-capture: That's a pretty cool application! ...

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Data Visualization

Guido OswaldFebruary 19, 2013 0

Business Intelligence 2013 – Was Analysten erwarten und warum Visual Analytics alles kann!

Boris Evelson ist nicht irgendein Branchenkenner: Der Analyst ist vielleicht der BI Experte bei Forrester! Wie schon oft zuvor schaut er auch 2013 in die Glaskugel und trifft Voraussagen, welche Themen in diesem Jahr dominieren werden. Beim Lesen seines Artikels ist mir klar geworden, wie gut SAS® Visual Analytics den eigentlich erst noch

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