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Where do provisional ballots come from?

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this year’s midterm election, when it comes to counting the ballots … and I kept hearing the term provisional ballots in the news. But I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t really know much about provisi…

Building a better election map

The US ‘midterm’ elections have finally started to wind down, and we finally have some (mostly) finalized results to study. But what’s the best way to visualize who won the US congressional seats in each of the 435 districts? Let’s dive into this topic…

Create newline-delimited JSON (or JSONL) with SAS

JSON is a popular format for data exchange between APIs and some modern databases. It’s also used as a way to archive audit logs in many systems. Because JSON can represent hierarchical relationships of data fields, many people consider it to be superior to the CSV format — although it’s […]

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Big Data in Healthcare

Joseph Woodside shares examples of applied experimental learning in healthcare from his book, “Applied Health Analytics and Informatics Using SAS”.
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Check out the SAS Student Series during winter break

SAS is launching the SAS Student Series, which bundles thousands of dollars’ worth of training and certification materials into an affordable package for university students and recent graduates.
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Enhancing a congressional district map – one layer at a time

With the recent midterm elections here in the US, I frequently saw congressional district maps popping up in the news. And being a GraphGuy, I wanted to fully understand these maps, to see if I might could improve them. If you’re interested in congress…

Creating a custom ‘I Voted’ sticker

With today being an election day here in the US, I see a lot of people wearing the ‘I Voted’ sticker. This got me wondering if I could create my own sticker … using SAS software and simple graphics primitives. 🙂 So I started by using Proc Gslide to create […]

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Reporting on accelerometer data with SAS Visual Analytics

I’ve collected accelerometer data with a third-party app. I’ve used some SAS tricks to import all of my data readings in a single step. Now I’m ready to create a report of these data in SAS Visual Analytics.

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