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Do You KISS Your Line Charts?

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Probably you have heard the Keep It Simple Sweetie (KISS) principle stated hundreds of times – mainly because it is true. Keep your message simple and straightforward by removing any unnecessary visual clutter. Your job is to direct the viewer’s attention to what is important about the message. Nothing could be more true with a line chart.

Line charts allow you to see trends over time. …

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New SAS Visual Analytics certification launched

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The SAS Global Certification program is proud to announce the release of a new credential: SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst Using SAS Visual Analytics. This credential is designed for analysts who are using SAS Visual Analytics to explore data and create insightful data visualizations. With SAS Visual Analytics now deployed in over […]

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How Not Knowing Pie Charts Makes You a #DataViz Rookie

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If I live to be 115 years old, I’ll never understand why consultants use pie charts. Your chance of doing them wrong is greater than doing them right. At the SAS Global Forum last week, I was delighted to hear several others telling me how much they hated pie charts and we agreed, they need to be stomped out – we are forming a #DataVizArmy …

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Administration: What Demons Are at Your Command?

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In the US, Halloween is celebrated by young children dressing up as ghouls, ghosts, and demons of other sorts.  I think the original idea of costumes was to be the scarier demon, which means if I look like a bad ass demon then maybe the truly bad ass demons will run away in fright. This made me wonder What do I truly find scary? Turns out it is not graveyards, …

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SAS Visual Analytics: Get Your Mobile BI Design Going

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During the middle of the year, I like to re-read the analysts predictions to figure out who know what they are talking about and who was just talking. For the Business Intelligence sector several folks [and vendors] were saying that Mobile BI was going to start driving the market this …

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Everything Still Starts and Ends with Data in SAS Visual Analytics

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SAS Visual Analytics is changing the way data is analyzed and delivered in the SAS world.  The Visual Analytics LASR server brings a new method for handling large volumes of data directly in-memory.  New tools give businesses more power with less effort to prepare data for analysis, explore data, and …

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How to build a correlations matrix heat map with SAS

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If you’ve watched any of the demos for SAS Visual Analytics (or even tried it yourself!), you have probably seen this nifty exploration of multiple measures. It’s a way to look at how multiple measures are correlated with one another, using a diagonal heat map chart. The “stronger” the color […]

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