Category: SAS

Reporting on accelerometer data with SAS Visual Analytics

I’ve collected accelerometer data with a third-party app. I’ve used some SAS tricks to import all of my data readings in a single step. Now I’m ready to create a report of these data in SAS Visual Analytics.

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Visualizing cities as constellations in the night sky

Who says technical people can’t have fun!?! Similar to Throwback Thursday / #TBT (when people post one of their old/nostalgic photos on social media), I like the tradition of Fun Friday when I use a fun data topic to test our software – a test can be j…

Tracking Trump’s approval rating

President Donald Trump – people seem to either love him or hate him. Which makes for an interesting data-analysis topic … tracking Trump’s approval rating. Follow along as I explore some data! I’ll start with what I consider the ‘best’ approval-rating graph I’ve found so far. Here’s a screen-capture of […]

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What is the most common last name in each North Carolina county?

The other day I was playing around with the voter registration data for all ~8 million registered voters in North Carolina (yes – this guy knows how to have fun!), and I got to wondering what last names were the most common. I summarized the data by co…

We broke some records at the 2018 NC State Fair!

This past Sunday was the last day of the NC State Fair, and we broke some records this year! Can you guess what those records were? I’ll ramble on about the fair to give you time to come up with your guess, and then I’ll let you know about the […]
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Which state has the oldest US Legislators? – Pick your graph axes carefully!

Have you noticed a lot of graphs popping up lately, about politicians, voters, and elections? … Well of course – it’s an election year! If you follow my blog posts, then you’re probably a bit “smarter than the average bear” when it comes to scrutiniz…

DNA and your family tree … 6-10 generations back

Any of you who are even slightly into politics, or have followed any news lately, have probably seen something about the DNA test Elizabeth Warren took to prove/disprove her Native American ancestry. The test indicates she might have had a Native Ameri…

Timeline of US Supreme Court Justices

Here in the US, we recently had a new Supreme Court Justice appointed. This is a very important position, and judges usually serve until they retire or die. My buddy Rick gave me a heads-up that there was a table of all the past & present justices …