Mount St. Helens volcano here in the US had a big eruption 35 years ago this week! Do you know exactly where it is located? Perhaps this SAS map can help… As you might have guessed, I’m a big fan of the awesome power of nature (hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes, and […]
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As a kid, I was always intrigued with UFO sightings and I guess I’m still a little that way … therefore how could I not jump at the opportunity to explore some UFO sightings data! I guess “UFO” doesn’t necessarily imply that something is an alien space ship – just […]
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In recent releases of SAS, you can use Output Delivery System graphics or ‘ODS graphics on’ to produce nice graphical output for most of the analytic procedures. These default graphs are nice, but when you want your graphs to look “a certain way” SAS also lets you create your own custom graphs! […]
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by Bob Muenchen Analytics tools take significant effort to master, so once learned people tend to stick with them for much of their careers. This makes the tools used in academia of particular interest in the study of future trends … Continue reading →
I was surprised to find that the size of the U.S. federal government is smaller today, than in the past many decades – let’s graph it out, so it’s easy to analyze… The way I got started on this little adventure was via Jishai’s graph on dadaviz.com. Here’s a snapshot […]
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Photos from SAS Global Forum in Dallas Apr26 – Apr29It was a wonderful Global Forum this year…A lot of enthusiastic people were enquiring at Qualex’s booth…It was a great opportunity to meet and learn a lot from SAS folks at the Foru…
I’ve seen a lot of recent news articles purporting income inequality in the U.S. (“the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”) … and I wondered if the graphs were a true/unbiased representation of the data. For example, I recently saw a couple of graphs in an article on the […]
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Smoking is an addictive habit that can kill you – if you don’t believe me, check out the infographic in this blog post. Recently a friend of mine was on the episode of the Dr. Phil show that focused on “quitting smoking.” Here’s a picture of Traci with Dr. Phil […]
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