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SAS/GRAPH: Intermediate Tricks (a Handbook for the Wizard’s Apprentice)

Did you ever wish you could master SAS/GRAPH, and create graphs and maps that were customized exactly like you wanted them? Then this free eBook is for you! Probably the most memorable book for me was the Necronomicon in the Army of Darkness movie. How many of you liked that […]

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Using transparent colors in SAS Graphs

This graph certainly makes it clear! I can see right through your lies! Clearly, you know what you’re talking about! We need more transparency in our organization! What was that all about, you might ask?!? … I was just getting all the obvious puns ou…

A beginner’s tutorial on … pie charts

There’s an old expression “easy as pie.”  Have you ever tried to bake a pie??? … It’s not so easy, LOL!  And neither is using pie charts correctly! 🙂 Below are several examples of different kinds of pie charts you can create with SAS/GRAPH. And at…

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…

A beginner’s tutorial on … line plots

Do you know (right off the top of your head) the simple SAS/GRAPH code you would use to create line graphs? … If not, then this tutorial is for you! A line plot is basically a scatter plot where the markers are connected. A line plot should only be u…

A beginner’s tutorial on … scatter plots

Scatter plots are probably the simplest kind of graph, and provide a great way to visually look for relationships between two variables.  But, do you know (right off the top of your head) the simple SAS/GRAPH code you would use to create them? … Thi…

125 years of experience can’t be wrong

Occasionally we see students in our more advanced courses who have skipped the Programming 1: Essentials class. Usually they are familiar with SAS or other programming languages. Sometimes they are even fluent and proficient in other programming langua…

What Didn’t Stay in Vegas

Just flew back from Vegas, and boy, are my arms tired! (ba-dump)

If you attended SAS Global Forum, you probably learned a lot of things you didn’t know. But if you were a SAS employee, you also learned a lot of things you didn’t know. One of th…