In the previous post, “Roses are red, violets are blue…”, I discussed the general problem of getting style attributes to line up with specific group values and some ways to overcome the problem. In this installment, I want to elaborate on the attribute map functionality in the Graph Template Language

Recently, I had a discussion with a user concerning the volume of imagemap data generated for an interactive,  web-based visual contain a large number of graphs. The large amount of imagemap data was causing problems with the current version of their web browser. The graphs consisted of either bar charts

An issue that SAS/GRAPH users have wrestled with in the past has been how to put tick marks at irregular intervals on their axes. In PROC GPLOT, if you specify irregular intervals using the ORDER option on the AXIS statement, the procedure’s axis kicks into a “discrete” mode, where the

A recent post on the SAS website shows the SAS Annual Revenue History.  It would be interesting to see how we could create such a graph using SG procedures, and how we could add more information and interest in the presentation.  So, I started with the basic informaiton on the annual revenues provided,

In Simple maps can go a long way, we discussed some techniques to create simple outline maps from map datasets in the MAPS library using GTL.  Now, let us take this a step further to do something more useful with this feature. For some graphs, the map information is an essential part of the