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whitepaper Make Your Tables Pop: Embedding Micrographics in PROC REPORT Output2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  It's a very common thing to have a table of information included in a report. It's also very common to have graphics, such as bar charts, in the same report. This paper will look at techniques, available in SAS, to place the graphics right in the tables. The SAS/Graph Annotate facility will be used to create small, standalone graphics files. The files can then be placed in a "Cell" of a table created by PROC REPORT. This technique allows the user to create tables that draw the reader's eyes to the important information much more quickly than scanning through all the text.

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whitepaper A Framework to Customize Frame: Building an Interactive Report Web Portal by ODS2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  Clinical SAS programmers generate hundreds, if not thousands pages of plain-text tables and listings on the daily basis. Identifying critical information from this vast volume of data, such as the patient who is a super responder to a novel RA treatment, an alarming adverse event, is not a trivial task. Therefore, it is in high demand to develop an interactive, user-friendly interface through which one could easily cross-examine various sections of a clinical report including tables, listings and figures by simply point-clicking on browser.

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whitepaper Image Is Almost Everything: Displaying Statistics Via ODS2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  After conducting statistical analyses one must find a way to report the results. A simple print of the traditional SAS output can disinterest most readers, especially those not familiar with statistics. The Output Delivery System (ODS) gives the user the ability to output results of statistical tests into data tables and graphs. With some manipulation and formatting these data tables can be sent to the possible ODS destinations to generate appealing results therefore avoiding manual data entry. This paper offers ways to make a nice presentation of numbers to assist an audience in reading and interpreting results. Examples include using the LOGISTIC and GLM procedures to better display odds ratios and adjusted least-squares means.

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whitepaper Inline Formatting With ODS Markup2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  Explore the power of inline formatting in ODS. And, learn about the super powers of inline formatting with ODS markup and ODS measured; see how easy it is to make the reports look better than ever. With new and improved syntax, ODS inline formatting is better and more powerful. Learn how to use it and extend it to do even more than one dreamed possible.   
whitepaper Create State and County Plots Easily Using a Set of SAS/Graph Utility Macros2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  This paper will introduce a set of utility macros designed to simplify the creation of state and county level data plots. By making use of macros with execution-time parameters these routines can be used by even novice SAS users to create geographical data plots with little or no knowledge of SAS/Graph. The macros demonstrated will also allow users to overlay text and data-dependant markers on their plots as well as combine multiple plots into a single graphic image.

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whitepaper Notes From an Intersection: Google Earth @ SAS2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  This paper examines the issues one encounters using SAS to create data-driven placemarks viewable in Google Earth. The introduction of bike lanes in certain areas of St. Petersburg, Florida, provides a scenario for comparing before-and-after traffic counts. The traffic count data, while providing an intersection label, does not provide latitude and longitude. Come along for a ride on the SAS train from proprietary traffic counts to Google Earth; there are sure to be many detours. Is it a rollercoaster or a kiddie ride? At the 2008 SAS Global Forum, two integrative techniques were unveiled. Kuiper and Vyverman showed how to use SAS XML Mapper to read, and in SAS 9.2, write Google Earth XML (KML).

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whitepaper Mission Possible: Putting a Table and Multiple Graphs on a Single-Page PDF With ODS and Basic GOPTIONS2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  The goal of this project is to produce a one-page report that includes a data table, several similar graphs, and one different graph. The approach the author took was to break this into two general pieces - write code for each of the individual parts - the table, the repeated graph, the final graph - then figure out how to combine them and make a single-page report. The "Assignment" this paper works on is a fictional request from the manager of the snack food division. The author has been asked to produce a one-page PDF report that shows the quarterly income values for each of the four delicious snacks (a table).

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whitepaper Automatic Generation of Titles, Footnotes, and Superscripts for Tables With Macros and PROC REPORT2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  What does one do when they have 5,000 web ready output tables to produce in a short time? One panics! - Then one automates. The author created a macro and input structure using SAS ODS, PROC REPORT and Microsoft Excel that auto-generated the tables, web pages, directories, and HTML index pages. The footnotes and subscripts were all put in the right place, and with the right number. The macro can be easily modified for the needs of the user. Researchers, and persons with possibly little or no background in SAS can enter their metadata specifications for the output tables into the Excel template, and the worksheet can be subsequently modified without the need to make further changes to the macro.

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whitepaper Using the SAS/OR OPTMODEL Procedure to Assign Students to Schools in the Wake County Public School System2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  With over 137,000 students and 156 schools, the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) is the largest in North Carolina and the eighteenth largest in the United States. Each year, WCPSS faces the problem of assigning students to schools, using multiyear student population forecasts. The main goals are to reduce county-wide: socioeconomic imbalance among neighborhood schools, overcrowding, travel time, and the number of students reassigned to different schools from year to year. These goals must be achieved while adhering to numerous constraints, which include limits on student demographics by region, limits on school-specific capacities, and the observance of predetermined special assignments. WCPSS needed to automate this previously manual assignment process in order to efficiently evaluate different policies and decisions and quickly propose new assignments.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Discover and Drive Brand Activity in Social Networks2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  Text, brands and networks are now common-place terms that are often used to describe an emerging field of practice that scans web-based text content in search of brand use information. The Web scans attempt to identify trends, themes and tendencies among consumers that can indicate brand use, brand sentiment and attitudes toward brand manufacturers. Because these Web-mediated conversations are becoming increasingly common, they influence business and, because they influence business, no major manufacturer can afford to ignore these conversations. Consequently, more and more manufacturers and brand managers are making efforts to develop and improve upon the methodologies for conversation monitoring on the Web.

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