They say “a picture is worth 1000 words” – and I think it might be more like 2000 when it comes to planning out fun/interesting things to do in a new city! I’m going to the SAS Global Forum (#SASGF) conference in Orlando this year, and I was wondering where […]
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As you travel around the world, do you know where English, French, Spanish, and Arabic are spoken? This blog will help you quickly answer that question, with some cool SAS maps! But first, here’s a picture of my friend Joy posing beside an interesting sign during one of her international […]
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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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In the Breaking Bad TV series, Walter White has an impressive lab where he secretly makes the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth). Wouldn’t it be cool to use SAS to show the locations of all the clandestine meth labs in the US?!? Let’s do it!… In thi…
In previous versions of SAS, if you wanted to experiment with creating U.S. maps in Proc GMAP, there wasn’t any good sample data available. Unless you had your own data available, you probably ended up using the maps.us x/y points as your DATA= … w…
SAS 9.3 already has smooth (anti-aliased) lines in SAS/GRAPH device=png output, and in SAS 9.4 you will also get smooth lines in your device=gif output (and gif animations)! Woo-hoo!!! Here are a couple of simple examples to demonstrate: The firs…
You might have seen my previous blog, where I plotted some interesting tourist attractions on a geographical map of the British Isles (which may be of interest to Analytics 2013 Conference delegates)… Well this blog uses even more powerful analytics,…
Are you going to Analytics 2013 in London?!? And if so, have you found any fun/interesting/touristy things to do while you’re there? … Being an analytics conference, I thought it would be good to apply some “analytics” to the task! So I took some…