Posts Tagged ‘ Maps ’

Browser wars: And the winner is …

August 28, 2012
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Have you ever tried to put something on the Web, and then it looks different for other people (or maybe doesn't work at all)? ... And you eventually found that it was because they were using a different browser? That's one of the reasons I like tradi...
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Is there bias in Facebook graphs?

August 20, 2012
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Facebook has millions of users, and therefore when people share an interesting graph on Facebook it can "go viral" and millions of people might see it.  Some of the graphs are obviously a bit biased - especially ones that are trying to sway your opi...
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Example 8.31: Choropleth maps

March 22, 2011
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Example 8.31: Choropleth maps

In our book, we show a simple example of a map (section 6.4.2) where we read the boundary files as data sets and use SAS and R to plot them. But both SAS and R have complex functionality for using pre-compiled map data. To demonstrate them, we'll sho...
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Good News for Map Geeks–SAS/GRAPH Mapping Course is Finally Here!

March 21, 2011
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Good News for Map Geeks–SAS/GRAPH Mapping Course is Finally Here!

Growing up in Michigan, I, like all state residents, learned early on that the lower peninsula of Michigan is shaped like a mitten. This piece of information has served me well all my life; whenever I meet a stranger who wants to know where in Mi...
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GEO Dimensions in OLAP Cubes

February 17, 2011
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I've written about this topic before, but find that more people are interested in how this works. Hoping to provide more detail below. Let me know if I missed anything! When using the 'GEO' dimension type in SAS OLAP Cubes, users will not see anything...
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