The Wall Street Journal recently published a study of the top 17 medical areas (or body parts) that venture capitalist investments are likely to benefit. They used graphs to summarize the results, but “the graph guy” in me just couldn’t resist trying to improve them. Did my improvements help? – […]
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In my local paper this morning, I read about how a North Carolina state commission plans to recommend changes to our teaching standards for mathematics. One of the topics that they want to bring back: Roman numerals. Why? According to my exhaustive 30 seconds of Internet research, the only practical […]
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There’s a lot of buzz about Hadoop these days. I started checking into it, and there seemed to be a gazillion releases. So, being The Graph Guy, I decided to create a graph to make it a little easier to digest! During my search for Hadoop information, I found the […]
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There’s big money in professional sports these days – we’re talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you… I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world’s most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind […]
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Krystian Matusz is what I’d call a super SAS user. He currently holds seven out of the nine credentials SAS offers. SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified BI Content Developer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS […]
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While I’ve often written about how to get your SAS data to Microsoft Excel in some automated way, I haven’t really addressed what’s probably the most frequently used method: copy and paste. SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 added a nifty little feature that makes copy-and-paste even more useful. The new “Copy […]
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I’ve heard lots of people quote statistics about marriage & divorce, but the experts don’t always agree on what the data means. So I decided to run the data through a SAS graphical analysis, and see what the numbers say … Before we get into the numbers though, let’s have a […]
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With apologies to this candy advertisement from the 1980s: “Hey, you got your Lua in my SAS program.” “You got your SAS code in my Lua program!” Announcer: “PROC LUA: Two great programming languages that program great together!” What is Lua? It’s an embeddable scripting language that is often used […]
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