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SAS/GRAPH 101 2006-12-26 01:00:57 SAS Institute

SAS/GRAPH shares a trait with other parts of the SAS system. Upon first glance, the sheer volume of documentation makes it seem as if the learning curve might require a significant investment of time. In reality, very little knowledge of the 'Bells and whistles' of SAS/GRAPH is needed before one can produce presentation-quality graphics. This paper starts with very simple SAS code - where SAS makes the decisions as to the look of the graphics - and work their way gradually toward more customized output by adding more user control. PROC GPLOT is used throughout, though the same approach can be taken with any of the other SAS/GRAPH procedures.

Now - That's Your Style!!!!! 2006-12-26 01:00:57 SAS Institute

This paper discusses how to use styles to enhance output or to overcome problems that are frequently encountered using the Output Delivery System (ODS). Solutions to these problems involve methods that use styles and tagsets in the TEMPLATE procedure, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), scripting, the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), and more. Other topics that are addressed include handling page breaks in HTML; preventing truncated printed HTML output; adding headers, footers, page margins, and repeating headers; printing in landscape with the ODS HTML destination; and fine-tuning the printed HTML.

STOP! WAIT! GO!: See What Traffic-Lighting Can Do for You! 2006-12-26 01:00:57 SAS Institute

The Output Delivery System in conjunction with three SAS procedures that have procedure level styles make "Traffic lighting" or the highlighting of various output items easy to accomplish. Traffic lighting can allow the user to make the tables and reporting really stand out in the crowd! This paper will demonstrate various forms of traffic lighting in PROC TABULATE, PROC REPORT, and PROC PRINT to add interest to YOUR SAS output!

What's New in SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 2006-12-26 01:00:57 SAS Institute

SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 for SAS 9.1.3 provides many new enhancements to help both business analysts and statisticians carry out the data mining process more efficiently and with greater control and flexibility. A major focus of this release is to deliver new interactive statistical and visualization tools. The tool set has been expanded to include the new SOM/Kohonen, Decisions, and Replacement nodes. Major improvements have been made to nearly every other node. System administration has been enhanced through the use of the SAS Analytics Platform, which provides both thin-client distribution and server management functionality. Grid processing is now supported to manage the workload created by a large group of data miners.

Really Cool Graphics With SAS/GRAPH - Plotting and Embedding Likert Scales in Your Reports 2006-12-26 01:00:57 SAS Institute

The use of Likert scales can be a very effective approach in reporting one's data. While this type of scale is commonly used across a wide-range of professions to show where a given measure fits within a predefined scale, references on how to generate this as a high-quality professional looking graphic in SAS are rare at best. This paper will discuss an approach to generating Likert scale graphics that is unique, yet basic. By utilizing PROC GPLOT within SAS/GRAPH along with a few nifty ODS features, a SAS programmer can easily plot and embed his or her own Likert scales into reports. Users of this approach will undoubtedly get a "Wow, those are really cool graphics!" reaction from their coworkers.

Multi-Media Wizardry: How to Make ODS Outputs That "Dance and Sing" 2006-12-27 01:00:55 SAS Institute

For web pages, this paper shows how to add audio (including background audio, which does not require launch of a media player on all or part of the screen), video, animation, a marquee ("Traveling text", which is what a person sometimes see at the bottom of a television news broadcast), and custom-sized images. For PDF documents, this paper shows how to: include pop-up text (possibly data-dependent); create hyperlinks (possibly data-dependent) to audio clips, video clips, and animated graphics outside the PDF document; and imbed and re-size images. For RTF documents, there is no facility to add pop-up notes, and the handling of images and hyperlinks to external media files is analogous to that for other ODS output, but the distinguishing, special-effect possibility presented here is animated text.

Creating Bar Charts and Scatter Plots on the Same Page, Using PROC GPLOT or PROC GBARLINE in SAS? 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

The SAS GPLOT and GCHART procedures are powerful tools for generating graphical displays of clinical data, as they are usually employed to create scatter plots and bar charts respectively. However, people often need to display both a scatter plot and a bar chart within the same graph. The GCHART procedure cannot generate scatter plots and it does not have the ability to superimpose graphical displays. How does one get around this limitation? This paper explores the functionality of the new SAS version 9 PROC GBARLINE, which, was also created to tackle the limitation of GCHART. A comparison of the two procedures, GPLOT and GBARLINE, is given.

ODS Statistical Graphics for Clinical Research 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

Graphical representations to illustrate the effects and safety of treatments are often more easily understood and remembered than tabular forms. Statistical graphics play an important role in clinical research. Beginning with SAS9, a number of SAS/STAT procedures can use the Output Delivery System (ODS) to create statistical graphics automatically. One can use the ODS Graphics Template Language (GTL) to generate statistical graphics of one's own layout design. This new facility which is referred to as ODS Statistical Graphics greatly enhances the ability to produce statistical graphs for clinical research. This paper describes how to create commonly used statistical graphs for clinical research using ODS Statistical Graphics.

Interactive Graphs From the SAS System 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

The new technologies such as Java Applets and ActiveX Control are embedded and implemented in the SAS system which enables the SAS system to generate interactive graphs. The interactive features are - embedded controls, a programmable menu, scrolling, animation, zooming and panning, data tips, drill-down capability, and bookmarks and hyperlinks. These features are very desirable and enable the user to change graph properties without rerunning the job, pack extract graphical element relevant information to the output, link and navigate to relevant files and hot spots, control the functionality of the drill-down menus, and view the animation slide show.

Improving Your Graphics Using SAS/GRAPH Annotate Facility 2006-12-27 01:00:56 SAS Institute

The Annotate facility in SAS/GRAPH allows the user to enhance or change features of the plot or chart. This paper introduces Annotate and provides practical examples to illustrate how to improve the graphs. The user does not need to be an expert at SAS/GRAPH to use Annotate. Even though Annotate is an extremely powerful tool for creating entirely custom figures, with a few guidelines (and the Annotate macros) it can be easy to use for simpler tasks. The paper explains the principles behind Annotate and gives specific examples of some common uses: adding a label to a single point on a graph, re-labeling an axis, adding a custom box of text, and applying "White out" to unwanted text.

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Title	Date Added	Company
SAS/GRAPH 101	2006-12-26 01:00:57	SAS Institute
SAS/GRAPH shares a trait with other parts of the SAS system. Upon first glance, the sheer volume of documentation makes it seem as if the learning curve might require a significant investment of time. In reality, very little knowledge of the 'Bells and whistles' of SAS/GRAPH is needed before one can produce presentation-quality graphics. This paper starts with very simple SAS code - where SAS makes the decisions as to the look of the graphics - and work their way gradually toward more customized output by adding more user control. PROC GPLOT is used throughout, though the same approach can be taken with any of the other SAS/GRAPH procedures.
Now - That's Your Style!!!!!	2006-12-26 01:00:57	SAS Institute
This paper discusses how to use styles to enhance output or to overcome problems that are frequently encountered using the Output Delivery System (ODS). Solutions to these problems involve methods that use styles and tagsets in the TEMPLATE procedure, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), scripting, the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), and more. Other topics that are addressed include handling page breaks in HTML; preventing truncated printed HTML output; adding headers, footers, page margins, and repeating headers; printing in landscape with the ODS HTML destination; and fine-tuning the printed HTML.
STOP! WAIT! GO!: See What Traffic-Lighting Can Do for You!	2006-12-26 01:00:57	SAS Institute
The Output Delivery System in conjunction with three SAS procedures that have procedure level styles make "Traffic lighting" or the highlighting of various output items easy to accomplish. Traffic lighting can allow the user to make the tables and reporting really stand out in the crowd! This paper will demonstrate various forms of traffic lighting in PROC TABULATE, PROC REPORT, and PROC PRINT to add interest to YOUR SAS output!
What's New in SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2	2006-12-26 01:00:57	SAS Institute
SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 for SAS 9.1.3 provides many new enhancements to help both business analysts and statisticians carry out the data mining process more efficiently and with greater control and flexibility. A major focus of this release is to deliver new interactive statistical and visualization tools. The tool set has been expanded to include the new SOM/Kohonen, Decisions, and Replacement nodes. Major improvements have been made to nearly every other node. System administration has been enhanced through the use of the SAS Analytics Platform, which provides both thin-client distribution and server management functionality. Grid processing is now supported to manage the workload created by a large group of data miners.
Really Cool Graphics With SAS/GRAPH - Plotting and Embedding Likert Scales in Your Reports	2006-12-26 01:00:57	SAS Institute
The use of Likert scales can be a very effective approach in reporting one's data. While this type of scale is commonly used across a wide-range of professions to show where a given measure fits within a predefined scale, references on how to generate this as a high-quality professional looking graphic in SAS are rare at best. This paper will discuss an approach to generating Likert scale graphics that is unique, yet basic. By utilizing PROC GPLOT within SAS/GRAPH along with a few nifty ODS features, a SAS programmer can easily plot and embed his or her own Likert scales into reports. Users of this approach will undoubtedly get a "Wow, those are really cool graphics!" reaction from their coworkers.
Multi-Media Wizardry: How to Make ODS Outputs That "Dance and Sing"	2006-12-27 01:00:55	SAS Institute
For web pages, this paper shows how to add audio (including background audio, which does not require launch of a media player on all or part of the screen), video, animation, a marquee ("Traveling text", which is what a person sometimes see at the bottom of a television news broadcast), and custom-sized images. For PDF documents, this paper shows how to: include pop-up text (possibly data-dependent); create hyperlinks (possibly data-dependent) to audio clips, video clips, and animated graphics outside the PDF document; and imbed and re-size images. For RTF documents, there is no facility to add pop-up notes, and the handling of images and hyperlinks to external media files is analogous to that for other ODS output, but the distinguishing, special-effect possibility presented here is animated text.
Creating Bar Charts and Scatter Plots on the Same Page, Using PROC GPLOT or PROC GBARLINE in SAS?	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
The SAS GPLOT and GCHART procedures are powerful tools for generating graphical displays of clinical data, as they are usually employed to create scatter plots and bar charts respectively. However, people often need to display both a scatter plot and a bar chart within the same graph. The GCHART procedure cannot generate scatter plots and it does not have the ability to superimpose graphical displays. How does one get around this limitation? This paper explores the functionality of the new SAS version 9 PROC GBARLINE, which, was also created to tackle the limitation of GCHART. A comparison of the two procedures, GPLOT and GBARLINE, is given.
ODS Statistical Graphics for Clinical Research	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
Graphical representations to illustrate the effects and safety of treatments are often more easily understood and remembered than tabular forms. Statistical graphics play an important role in clinical research. Beginning with SAS9, a number of SAS/STAT procedures can use the Output Delivery System (ODS) to create statistical graphics automatically. One can use the ODS Graphics Template Language (GTL) to generate statistical graphics of one's own layout design. This new facility which is referred to as ODS Statistical Graphics greatly enhances the ability to produce statistical graphs for clinical research. This paper describes how to create commonly used statistical graphs for clinical research using ODS Statistical Graphics.
Interactive Graphs From the SAS System	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
The new technologies such as Java Applets and ActiveX Control are embedded and implemented in the SAS system which enables the SAS system to generate interactive graphs. The interactive features are - embedded controls, a programmable menu, scrolling, animation, zooming and panning, data tips, drill-down capability, and bookmarks and hyperlinks. These features are very desirable and enable the user to change graph properties without rerunning the job, pack extract graphical element relevant information to the output, link and navigate to relevant files and hot spots, control the functionality of the drill-down menus, and view the animation slide show.
Improving Your Graphics Using SAS/GRAPH Annotate Facility	2006-12-27 01:00:56	SAS Institute
The Annotate facility in SAS/GRAPH allows the user to enhance or change features of the plot or chart. This paper introduces Annotate and provides practical examples to illustrate how to improve the graphs. The user does not need to be an expert at SAS/GRAPH to use Annotate. Even though Annotate is an extremely powerful tool for creating entirely custom figures, with a few guidelines (and the Annotate macros) it can be easy to use for simpler tasks. The paper explains the principles behind Annotate and gives specific examples of some common uses: adding a label to a single point on a graph, re-labeling an axis, adding a custom box of text, and applying "White out" to unwanted text.