What cities have the most and least profitable public transportation services in the US? Perhaps you can find out in this graphical visualization of the data! The US data I’m analyzing here covers things like buses, vans, and rail … but it might be even more interesting to analyze data from […]
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A year ago, Love Bisht and Hardi Gokani were working toward their master’s degrees in information systems at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business when SAS piqued their interest. Today, they’re newly minted graduates with a powerful extra credential – SAS Certification. Love and Hardi, both India natives, encountered SAS […]
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A recent study by Bai & Anderson has found that some hospitals charge 10x (ie, 1000%) higher than the standard rates set by Medicare. Many news agencies have posted the list of the 50 US hospitals that have the highest markup. But I am more visually oriented, so of course I used SAS […]
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If you have not yet discovered the new Ask the Expert series on the SAS Training site, you are missing out on a treasure. Visit the site right now and review all of the available topics, from “Newbie” to Analytics to Visualization to good ol’ SAS programming. Go on; I’ll […]
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Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito? What are the odds it carried the West Nile virus? … Perhaps a lot higher than you thought! Here’s a picture of a mosquito that kept ‘bugging’ me around my computer desk at home – good riddance, I say! The West Nile […]
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Below is the latest update to The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. Books The number of books published on each software package or language reflects its relative popularity. Amazon.com offers an advanced search method which works well for all the software except R … Continue reading →
When reading a text file (common extensions: TXT, DAT; or, for the adventurous: HTML) with the DATA STEP, you should always view several lines from the text file, and compare to the record layout, before completing the INPUT statement. There are many ways to view a text file. I use […]
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My previous blog was about popular first names … now for a blog about popular surnames (ie, last/family names)! But before we get started, here’s a little pop-quiz – what country is my friend Mr. Foley’s surname from? I recently saw the following interesting map on dadaviz.com. It shows the most […]
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