Tag: sas/graph

Dabbling in genetics

With the medical science these days, there are many genetic defects you can be tested for, to see if you might develop a certain problem/disease, or might be a carrier for it.  Would you rather know, or not know?  (Would your health insurance company…

New U.S. sample data available in SAS 9.4

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…

Send your SAS graphs directly to Powerpoint!

To say that I’m excited about the SAS 9.4 release is an understatement! For example, did you know that in SAS 9.4, you can write SAS/Graph output directly to a Powerpoint slide?!?  This is definitely an item that was on my “wish list,” and will no dou…

Smooth sailing (and smooth lines!) in SAS 9.4 gif graphs

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…

What’s the big idea? Big graphs, for bigger data!

Not everyone agrees on a definition of “big data” — but you’ll probably agree that the amount of data available today is a lot bigger than in the past, eh?!? … so let’s just call it “Bigger Data”!  🙂 And you might have noticed that some of your ol…

Real-world analytics for Analytics 2013!

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,…