If anyone knows how to finesse insight out of data, it’s Bart Baesens, professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). Not only has he written a book about it, Analytics in a Big Data World: The Essential Guide to Data Science and […]
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Analyzing wait times at VA health care facilities
Data about the monthly wait times at VA facilities in the US are now available, but it’s a bit overwhelming to try to analyze them in tabular form – plotting the data on a map made it a lot easier!… Here in the US, when our soldiers finish their commitment in […]
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A custom map to help track the flu
Has this year’s flu been better or worse than you thought it would be? There are a lot of factors that help determine whether or not you’re likely to get the flu. Is there a bad strain going around? Did the flu vaccine target the right strain? Did you get […]
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Applying the KISS principle to maps: An analysis of breastfeeding prevalence
How simple is too simple, when it comes to analyzing data on a map? The KISS principle can be applied to many things, including graphs and maps. What is the KISS principle, you might ask? Well, it’s not the rock band that my friend Patricia (pictured below) has been known […]
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UK General Election 2015: using PROC MAPIMPORT to visualise the election
Election fever has hit the United Kingdom as the days count down to 7th May 2015. This is likely to be one of the most uncertain elections in recent memory, with nearly 10 parties struggling for votes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Results night will be tense, with the different […]
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Variations on a stickman graph: Analyzing the Twitter minions
One of our customers asked if I could show him how to reproduce a stickman graph that David McCandless (ala, Information is Beautiful) had created. I’m not sure that it’s the best kind of graph for the occasion, but of course SAS can be used to create it! … David’s […]
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Where are the world’s best roller coasters?
Would you rather see a list of the world’s 50 best roller coasters, or an interactive map? (… how about both!) Before we get started on this ride, here’s a picture of my friend Jennifer’s daughter, getting an early/young start on riding roller coasters (she’s in the back, with her […]
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Drilling down on fracking graphs
The topic of fracking has been in the news a lot lately – this blog post explores some of the finer points of plotting opinion data related to fracking … I recently saw the following graph on dadaviz.com. It showed some interesting data, and presented the data in a way […]
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