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Rick WicklinSeptember 2, 2020 0

The HighLow plot: When a stacked bar chart is not enough

The HighLow plot often enables you to create many custom plots without resorting to annotation. Although it is designed to create a candlestick chart for stocks, it is incredibly versatile. Recently, a SAS programmer wanted to create a patient-profile graph that looked like a stacked bar chart but had repeated

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Tara St. ClairAugust 31, 2020 0

Building custom apps on top of SAS Viya, Part One: Where's the value?

This series is geared towards walking you through a piece of the puzzle of operationalizing your analytics: securely integrating your custom applications into your SAS Viya platform. This is particularly useful after exposing your analytics as HTTP REST APIs, as we'll see an intentionally brief example of in this first

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Rick WicklinAugust 31, 2020 0

The best way to generate dummy variables in SAS

On discussion forums, many SAS programmers ask about the best way to generate dummy variables for categorical variables. Well-meaning responders offer all sorts of advice, including writing your own DATA step program, sometimes mixed with macro programming. This article shows that the simplest and easiest way to generate dummy variables

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