I recently read an interesting article in The Economist, where they describe “The Big Mac index.” This is an index they invented as a lighthearted guide to compare currencies in different countries. In their article they create a multi-panel displa…
Tag: Maps
Tracking tornadoes with SAS
We had some fierce wind storms all across the United States yesterday, which even spawned some tornadoes! It looks like we weathered the storm OK here in Cary (but I still need to run out to the lake and make sure my pontoon/houseboat is still there, …
Browser wars: And the winner is …
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…
Is there bias in Facebook graphs?
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…
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…
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…
GEO Dimensions in OLAP Cubes
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…