The East Coast is having lots of snow and ice storms today, and SAS headquarters is officially closed. But I thought it would be a great day to get a few things done! And among those few things is “write a snow-related blog”. Hope you enjoy it! After 21 years of […]
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Are you from Yankeedom, The Far West, or somewhere in between? In this blog, I use SAS maps to explore some fun data about regional cultures in the U.S. I recently ran across an interesting article about Colin Woodward’s book “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures […]
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You probably heard the recent announcement this past Friday that Walmart will be closing 269 stores. Are any closing near where you live? This blog shows some really cool SAS maps to let you drill-down into the data! I’ve seen a few maps showing which Walmart stores are closing, but they […]
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With a major election coming next year, I was wondering if there have been any shifts & changes in the voters in my state. This seems like an interesting opportunity for some data analysis, eh!?! To get you into the spirit of elections, here’s an “I Voted” sticker from my friend […]
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I remember being intrigued by the movie In Search of Noah’s Ark, when I was a kid back in the 1970s. They claimed to have definitively found the ark … but of course, since then several other people claim to have found it in other locations. Therefore I don’t feel too […]
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Every year, Fortune magazine compiles a list of the 500 largest US corporations – called the Fortune 500. Their list was a bit difficult to digest in text-form, so I thought I’d try using some maps & graphs on the data … For a map analysis, I thought it would […]
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My blog posts focus on visual data analysis, and many of them use geographical maps. Therefore I hope you will have fun with a quick geography quiz, which I created using SAS/Graph … And what, you might […]
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I just returned home from an expedition/adventure boat trip to Cuba, and Talk Like a Pirate day is coming up this Saturday – what a combination for an interesting blog! I hope you enjoy a few pictures, and a bit of data analysis on these topics! A couple of weeks ago, […]
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