Tag: visualization

Using more of the 1,000,000+ English words

With over 1,000,000 words in the English language, why is it that we tend to use the same words over & over? This blog shows a hierarchical approach to help you branch out and choose more descriptive words. But first, to get you into the mood for a blog about […]

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Do city buses in the US make a profit?

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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Use MongoDB as a JSON factory

MongoDB is a persistent data store for JSON formatted data, which seems like an ideal middleware between the data tier software and the web. With MongoDB, Javascript’s Map/Reduce functionality makes many trivial jobs particularly easy, such …

Bubble plot by SAS and Highcharts.js

Bubble plot is a nice data visualization choice for three dimensional numeric variables. It seems quite popular on web and documents.

Static plotting by SAS

Since SAS 9.3, PROC SGPLOT provides a bubble statement, which makes a bubble plot eas…

Use Google Trends and SAS to select movies to watch

The newest success story about data science is Google search predicts box office with 94 percent accuracy. I am a frequent movie theater goer, and it will be great if we can implement Google’s impressive research result.

There are quite a few…

Make all SAS tables sortable in the output HTML

Most procedures in SAS generate stylish tables in the output HTML files. An option to sort the tables without bothering SAS again will be very handy for people who are familiar with Excel.

The JavaScript libary jQuery has a number of plug-ins. …

SAS and D3.js (3): draw a map to display US cities’ murder rates

Robert Allison has given an excellent map example by SAS/GRAPH about the murder rates per 100,000 people in the major US cities. To emulate this map, we should annotate the cities and use the size of the bubbles to represent the murder rates…

SAS and D3.js (2): a macro to draw dynamic bar chart

More and more statistical softwares are able to create interactive web application. The recent shiny package by RStuido is a good example. Besides, in the world that JavaScript rules the browsers, D3.js seems to be very promising for rich data visual…