The Wall Street Journal recently published a study of the top 17 medical areas (or body parts) that venture capitalist investments are likely to benefit. They used graphs to summarize the results, but “the graph guy” in me just couldn’t resist trying to improve them. Did my improvements help? – […]
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There’s a lot of buzz about Hadoop these days. I started checking into it, and there seemed to be a gazillion releases. So, being The Graph Guy, I decided to create a graph to make it a little easier to digest! During my search for Hadoop information, I found the […]
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There’s big money in professional sports these days – we’re talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you… I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world’s most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind […]
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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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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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There’s been quite a bit of controversy about the number of undocumented immigrants in the US lately – for example, Ann Coulter claims that number is 30 million, whereas others claim it’s about 11 million (readers of my blog are data-savvy, and would dig into the details of such claims, […]
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July has been an exciting month for me. Not only because of the historic Tour de France this year… but even more because this month the new offering SAS Factory Miner was officially released! With SAS Factory Miner you can run predictive models in an automated model tournament environment to […]
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