In recent versions of SAS/Graph, we have been shipping new/updated maps of each country, with 2 levels of detail (such as state & county, or province & division). But what if you only want a map showing the higher level of detail? In this blog post I share my third […]
The post Your mapping toolkit tip #3 – removing internal borders appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
Have you ever seen a map that just didn’t look right to you? Perhaps the map area seemed squished or stretched? Perhaps this was because they used a different map projection than you were accustomed to. Or maybe the map coordinates weren’t projected at…
With the advent of things like car GPS & Google Maps, and a steady supply of nice maps from certain news sources (such as the New York Times), people have finally embraced the idea that mapping data can be very useful. And if you are into data visualization, you have […]
The post Your mapping toolkit Tip #1 – reducing border complexity appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
Thanks to a new open source project from SAS, Python coders can now bring the power of SAS into their Python scripts. The project is SASPy, and it’s available on the SAS Software GitHub. It works with SAS 9.4 and higher, and requires Python 3.x. I spoke with Jared Dean […]
The post Introducing SASPy: Use Python code to access SAS appeared first on The SAS Dummy.
For those of you who don’t have SAS/Graph’s Proc GMap, I recently showed how to ‘fake’ a variety of maps using Proc SGplot polygons. So far I’ve written blogs on creating: pretty maps, gradient shaded choropleth maps, and maps with markers at zip codes…
There’s an old song that starts out, “You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice’s Restaurant.” Well, maybe you are too young to know that song, but if you’re a SAS users, you’ll be glad to know that you can capture anything produced by any SAS procedure (even if the […]
The post Capturing output from any procedure with an ODS OUTPUT statement appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
If you’re into data visualization, here’s something that might interest you – a free eBook showing several ways to use SAS to visually analyze your data. (Did I mention it’s FREE?!?!) We’ve picked juicy chapters from several books and upcoming books (a…
Users frequently ask how to plot their data as markers on a map. There are several ways to do this using SAS software. If you’re a Visual Analytics user, you can do it using a point-and-click interface. But if you’re a coder, you might need a little he…