While I’ve often written about how to get your SAS data to Microsoft Excel in some automated way, I haven’t really addressed what’s probably the most frequently used method: copy and paste. SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 added a nifty little feature that makes copy-and-paste even more useful. The new “Copy […]
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Probably you have heard the Keep It Simple Sweetie (KISS) principle stated hundreds of times – mainly because it is true. Keep your message simple and straightforward by removing any unnecessary visual clutter. Your job is to direct the viewer’s attention to what is important about the message. Nothing could be more true with a line chart.
Line charts allow you to see trends over time. …
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I’ve heard lots of people quote statistics about marriage & divorce, but the experts don’t always agree on what the data means. So I decided to run the data through a SAS graphical analysis, and see what the numbers say … Before we get into the numbers though, let’s have a […]
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If you are introduced to command-line Unix (or Linux or any other Posix-compliant variant) after a lifetime of Windows, it can be a daunting experience. To those thrust into this position, I always offer my top “ten” most useful commands to begin getti…
With apologies to this candy advertisement from the 1980s: “Hey, you got your Lua in my SAS program.” “You got your SAS code in my Lua program!” Announcer: “PROC LUA: Two great programming languages that program great together!” What is Lua? It’s an embeddable scripting language that is often used […]
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I recently saw a cool graph showing the US import/export trade deficit. But after studying it a bit, I realized I was perceiving it wrong. Follow along in this blog, to find out what the problem was, and how I redesigned the graph to avoid it. I was looking through dadaviz.com […]
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In my quest for interesting data to graph, I found some Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) data on US domestic cannabis eradication. Does the data say anything interesting? Read on to find out! … While doing some searches for other data, I happened across a table on the DEA website titled […]
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