A 100% stacked bar chart is useful for comparing the relative frequencies of an m x n table where frequencies in m are very different. While this is easy to do in Excel, SAS requires an extra step, which you … Continue reading →
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On his SAS and R blog, Ken K. recently posted an example of a visualization technique called "small multiples". In this exercise, Ken shows the programming technique for replicating a particular series of pie charts in R as well as in SAS. It's a useful exercise to learn from, but
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As any good analyst knows, working with data is not the problem. Good analysts have the skill necessary to combine, split, merge, slice, aggregate, or summarize data any way you can imagine. However, is that enough? Probably not.. What good does data do if you can’t communicate its meaning in a logical way. The...
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first step, build encoding tables based on the documentation: data encSimple encEnhanced; s='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.'; format raw 8. enc $8.; raw=.; enc='_'; output encSimple; enc='__'; output encEnhanced;...
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first step, build encoding tables based on the documentation: data encSimple encEnhanced; s='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.'; format raw 8. enc $8.; raw=.; enc='_'; output encSimple; enc='__'; output encEnhanced;...
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I’ve gone through the work of creating a dashboard using SAS/GRAPH and summary data sets. I’ve got my autoexec to re-build the dashboard on a daily basis, which takes roughly 5 minutes each morning. it works. but not really. the main issue is that...
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I've gone through the work of creating a dashboard using SAS/GRAPH and summary data sets. I've got my autoexec to re-build the dashboard on a daily basis, which takes roughly 5 minutes each morning. it works. but not really. the main issue is that it
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(santaDashBoard.png, With permission by Mr. Robert Allison)
Merry Christmas again. SAS marketing staff started up an interesting Christmas campaign on how Santa operates his workshop. Here is another wonderful work about Santa’s Dashboard, created by SAS senior R&D staff, Robert Allison.
Robert is a master of graphics and visualization. You can view his SAS/Graph examples in...
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