Category: SAS

Your mapping toolkit Tip #2 – projecting your map

Have you ever seen a map that just didn’t look right to you? Perhaps the map area seemed squished or stretched? Perhaps this was because they used a different map projection than you were accustomed to. Or maybe the map coordinates weren’t projected at…

Your mapping toolkit Tip #1 – reducing border complexity

With the advent of things like car GPS & Google Maps, and a steady supply of nice maps from certain news sources (such as the New York Times), people have finally embraced the idea that mapping data can be very useful. And if you are into data visualization, you have […]

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Introducing SASPy: Use Python code to access SAS

Thanks to a new open source project from SAS, Python coders can now bring the power of SAS into their Python scripts. The project is SASPy, and it’s available on the SAS Software GitHub. It works with SAS 9.4 and higher, and requires Python 3.x. I spoke with Jared Dean […]

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Drawing paths on a map using SGplot

For those of you who don’t have SAS/Graph’s Proc GMap, I recently showed how to ‘fake’ a variety of maps using Proc SGplot polygons. So far I’ve written blogs on creating: pretty maps, gradient shaded choropleth maps, and maps with markers at zip codes…

Capturing output from any procedure with an ODS OUTPUT statement

There’s an old song that starts out, “You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice’s Restaurant.”  Well, maybe you are too young to know that song, but if you’re a SAS users, you’ll be glad to know that you can capture anything produced by any SAS procedure (even if the […]

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How about a free eBook on data visualization using SAS!

If you’re into data visualization, here’s something that might interest you – a free eBook showing several ways to use SAS to visually analyze your data. (Did I mention it’s FREE?!?!) We’ve picked juicy chapters from several books and upcoming books (a…

How many records are in that PROC SQL result?

Did you know that PROC SQL captures the record count for a result set in a special automatic macro variable? When you create a subset of data to include in a report, it’s a nice touch to add a record count and other summaries as an eye-catcher to the report […]

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