Data Visualisation
The papers here are specific to the SAS/GRAPH product and describe various techniques for preparing Graphs, Charts and other visualisations of your data in SAS.
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Making ODS Graphics Templates Generic
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- 02 March 2010
The usefulness of an ODS graphics template can be greatly increased by making it more flexible in its behaviour. This paper shows how a graphics template can be parameterised, how the parameters can be made optional and given default values, and how the high-level behaviour of the template can be made to depend on the parameter values specified. Along the way, some insights are given into the workings of the Graphics Template Language (GTL).
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A Visual Revolution
- Date:
- 26 February 2010
This paper gives an introduction to the ODS Statistical Graphics facilities of SAS 9.2, emphasising ease of use. The facilities are compared and contrasted with those of traditional SAS graphics. The emphasis is on what can be produced, rather than the code required to produce it. This paper will be relevant for Programmers and Statisticians responsible for producing figures for clinical output.
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Annotating SAS Graphs
- Date:
- 26 February 2010
The “Annotate” facility of SAS/GRAPH has great potential, which is usually left unfulfilled due to lack of knowledge on the part of the programmer (or perhaps fright). This paper introduces the basics of “Annotate”, with some simple examples.
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Cool Screen Backgrounds Using SAS Graph
- Date:
- 02 March 2010
In this paper, we show how the SAS Data Step Graphics Interface (DSGI) can be used to generate graphics files which can be used as unusual and interesting screen backgrounds for web pages. We begin with patterns of tessellating polyominoes. (A tessellation is a tiling of the plane. A polyomino is like a domino only bigger i.e. it is made up of more than two squares.) Later we move on to “squaring the square” patterns, and show how to incorporate images into them.
