Tag: Business Intelligence

Creating custom region maps with SAS Visual Analytics

SAS Visual Analytics supports region maps for Country, US states, and provinces out-of-the-box.  These work well for small scale maps covering the world, a continent, or a single country.  However, other regions are often needed.  Beginning in version 8.3, VA supports custom polygons to display regions such as sales territories, […]

Creating custom region maps with SAS Visual Analytics was published on SAS Users.

Using Custom Coordinates for map creation in SAS Visual Analytics

In this post, we continue our discussion of geography variables, the foundation of Visual Analytics Geo maps. This time we will look at Custom Coordinates.  As with any statistical graph, understanding your data is key.  But when using Custom Coordinates for geographic maps, this understanding becomes even more important. Use […]

Using Custom Coordinates for map creation in SAS Visual Analytics was published on SAS Users.

Fundamentals of SAS Visual Analytics geo maps

Creating a map with SAS Visual Analytics begins with the geographic variable. This blog post explains the first type of geography variable that VA supports: predefined. Future posts will cover the other two types of geography variables in VA: custom coordinates and custom polygons.

Fundamentals of SAS Visual Analytics geo maps was published on SAS Users.

Photos from SAS Global Forum in Dallas Apr26 – Apr29

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…

Make a commitment and swim, bike, run with it

Over the past six months, my free time was devoted to training. This impacted my blog posting frequency but the training helped me successfully complete the inaugural Raleigh Ironman 70.3 in June. When thinking back through how this happened, I noticed…

So you want to install the Platform for SAS Business Analytics?

So you want to install the SAS Intelligence Platform on a server, but you just don’t have the time to read the documentation about how to perform the install.  Or, maybe, you just do not feel comfortable jumping into the install on your own. Let me …

SAS Talks for September: Mark Your Calendars

Lots of you have become loyal fans of our SAS Talks webinar series presented by technical experts, SAS employees and customers alike. I wanted to be sure the readers of this blog were aware of the webinar planned for September 13th because I think i…