Tag: bar chart

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…

Fact checking a reddit post about GDP

I peruse many different websites to get my news, and I always keep an eye out for good (or bad) presentations of data. I recently saw a posting on reddit claiming “U.S. GDP is greater than the total of all others combined.” This news seemed too good to…

U.S. federal government is shrinking

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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A beginner’s tutorial on … bar charts

Do you know how to create a bar chart using SAS, and when to use what kind of bar chart?!?  If the answer doesn’t come to you “easy as pie” then this blog is for you! Below are several examples of different kinds of bar charts you can create with SAS…

Graphs of Olympic proportions!

Everyone in the world has their attention turned towards the Olympics this week, so what better topic to tie in to a SAS/GRAPH blog than that?!?! I had seen a graph on the guardian website that I thought was interesting, so I decided to try to create …