With the recent midterm elections here in the US, I frequently saw congressional district maps popping up in the news. And being a GraphGuy, I wanted to fully understand these maps, to see if I might could improve them. If you’re interested in congress…
Creating a custom ‘I Voted’ sticker
With today being an election day here in the US, I see a lot of people wearing the ‘I Voted’ sticker. This got me wondering if I could create my own sticker … using SAS software and simple graphics primitives. 🙂 So I started by using Proc Gslide to create […]
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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…