For those of you who don’t have SAS/Graph’s Proc GMap, I recently showed how to ‘fake’ a variety of maps using Proc SGplot polygons. So far I’ve written blogs on creating: pretty maps, gradient shaded choropleth maps, and maps with markers at zip codes…
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Using Chinese characters as labels on SAS Maps
Doing business in a global economy, have you ever found yourself wanting to show Chinese (or Korean, or Japanese) labels on a map? If so, then this blog is for you! Before we get started, here is a photo of some Chinese characters to get you into the mood. This […]
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How to turn your graphs up to 11
If you consider yourself as a visualization expert, you strive to create graphs that set you apart from the data analysts and statisticians. Graphs that merely plot the data in a clear/concise manner aren’t enough for you. You want your graphs to also be intuitive, easy to read, and provide […]
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Send your SAS graphs to Excel, directly to Excel …
Are you the lone-wolf SAS programmer in your company – managing the data, performing the analyses, and graphing the output for everyone else? And what’s the only format they all know how to work with, and wish they had your output in? Let’s face it … that’s probably an Excel […]
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How to create your own QR codes with SAS!
You’ve seen the QR codes that you can just scan in with your smartphone’s camera, rather than writing down a web URL or other information, right? But do you know how to create your own QR code? Here’s an easy way to create them, using SAS… You’re probably familiar with […]
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Jedi SAS Tricks: The DATA to DATA Step Macro
I was answering questions about SAS in a forum the other day, and it struck me how much easier it is to help folks if they can provide a snippet of data to go along with their program when asking others to help troubleshoot. This makes it easy to run […]
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Finding July 4th fireworks shows with SAS software!
A friend who recently moved to North Carolina from the west coast asked, “What’s there to do around here for the July 4th holiday?” So I created a fireworks map, showing the locations of many of the celebrations around the state! Here’s a snapshot of my map – click on it to […]
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Creating a map using death data
I guess most of us have a morbid curiosity about how we’re going to die … which is probably why Francis Boscoe’s Causes of Death map went viral (no pun intended, of course!). This blog post shows how to create such a map… But first, to lighten up the mood a bit […]
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