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whitepaper A Gentle Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Software2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  The power and flexibility of SAS/GRAPH software enables the user to produce high quality graphs, charts, and maps. With all this strength and flexibility, the new user is sometimes overwhelmed and discouraged from using these powerful tools because of all the options and statements found in the syntax. However, learning how to use the tools of SAS/GRAPH can be a pleasant experience. This paper introduces several ways to generate graphical representations of the data. Starting with the importance of understanding their data, users are lead in a step by step process that ends with the generation of high quality plots and graphs.

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whitepaper ODS Graphics Designer: An Interactive Tool for Creating Batchable Graphs2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  The SAS/GRAPH ODS Graphics Designer is a GUI based interactive tool for users who want to create custom graph quickly without any programming. This paper will show how one can combine different types of plots, insets and legends to create the graph one needs. Use this flexible tool to incrementally build single-cell or multi-cell graphs adding rows and columns as one goes. Build data driven classification paneled graphs as easily as simple scatter plots. Start from scratch, or build on top of graphs from a customizable gallery, adding the own custom graphs to the graph gallery for future use, or to share with others.

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whitepaper Clinical Trial Reporting Using SAS/GRAPH SG Procedures2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  Graphics are a powerful way to display clinical trial data. By their very nature, clinical trials generate a large amount of information, and a concise visual presentation of the results is essential. Information about the patient population, drug dosages, clinical responses, and adverse events must be clear. Clinical laboratory results need to be presented within the context of acceptable limits, and subtle changes over time must be highlighted. This paper will show, by example, how such graphs can easily be created using the SAS/GRAPH SG procedures.

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whitepaper What's New in SAS Data Integration Studio 4.22009-02-27 SAS Institute
  SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2 provides many new enhancements to help both data warehouse developers and data integration specialists carry out the data integration process more efficiently and with greater control and flexibility. A major focus of this release is to deliver new visualization features and integrated debugging support. Major improvements have been made to nearly every transform node. Performance analysis and optimization capabilities have been enhanced through the use of integration with ARM facilities. Increased integration across the platform is another focus area that provides a better integrated user experience across the platform suite of products. Enhancements coming in version 4.21 will also be discussed. Customers will find many reasons to upgrade to SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2.

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whitepaper Generate a Customized Axis Scale With Uneven Intervals in SAS Automatically2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  The conventional order clause in the axis statement for SAS/GRAPH software is well-suited for scatter plots with continuous data or line plots where discrete data are evenly spaced apart. However, accommodating discrete ordinal data with uneven intervals requires a two-step approach. First, a hidden conventional axis with narrow intervals needs to be generated where ticks and labeling are turned off. Then the hidden axis is overlaid by the uneven scale that is plotted from ANNOTATE. With ANNOTATE there is no need to hard-code formats or label ticks in an axis statement. Instead, full automation can be achieved by combining ANNOTATE with a few macros.

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whitepaper Power You Didn't Know You Had: Using PSAX to Create Self-Generating Web Libraries With SAS2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  Just as the Ajax development style revolutionized the Web with Web 2.0, SAS has innate strengths that make it ideal for building drill-down libraries of Web information. Using the "PSAX" development style - pre-synchronous SAS and XML - one can push a Web-based information channel out to the Web, often with more primitive IT architecture than one would use for a Web 2.0 application. Whether one needs an online information system to track highway construction bidders, or a modern, Web-based skin to present standardized pharmaceutical testing, one can use PSAX to push the analysis to a user-friendly Web space. PSAX involves the smart use of SAS tools one probably already knows.

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whitepaper SAS Graphs in Small Multiples2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  Edward Tufte has championed the idea of using "Small multiples" as an effective way to present large amounts of data in limited space. This paper will discuss the issues of formatting SAS Graphs for scaling down, and the challenges of putting many graphs together in the same medium. The paper will also discuss options for drawing attention to specific graphs in this paper.   
whitepaper Show Them What's Important With Communication-Effective SAS Graphs: Solutions for a Finite Work Day in an Era of Information Overload2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  In this era of information overload and incessant instant information update, what are the best ways to visually and memorably communicate, and to meet the six crucial criteria of concise, clear, complete, correct, convincing, and current? This paper uses illustrations, design guidelines, and code to answer that question. Communication-effective SAS graphs visually say the most with the least, to focus on what matters. Solutions are provided for production applications, i.e., for overnight or on-demand batch jobs or for real-time SAS/IntrNet response, where the graph has to be right the first time every time, with no opportunity for iterative refinement that might be tolerable for ad hoc presentation preparation. Ways that Version 9.2 makes results more communication-effective are emphasized.   
whitepaper Using SAS to Analyze System Performance Metrics2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  This paper explains how Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 2.0 can generate flat files containing system metrics, such as memory, disk space, and CPU. System metrics can then be used in SAS to build data sets to analyze computer performance data. SAS functions, including PROC SQL, PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, and PROC TTEST are used. The data can be graphed using PROC CHART and by generating XML that can be displayed on the Web using Flash charts with XML/SWF Charts technology.

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whitepaper Visualizing Two Social Networks Across Time With SAS: Collaborators on a Research Grant Vs. Those Posting on SAS-L2009-02-27 SAS Institute
  This paper explores the visualization of two different social networks across time. One consists of people at 23,827 email addresses posting 267,209 messages to 82,279 threads on the email list SAS-L from 1996 through August of 2008. The other, much smaller but more complex, social network includes faculty, staff and students working on the Kansas NSF EPSCoR grant. Capabilities of the %DS2CONST macro and the SAS/GRAPH Annotate facility are compared. The use of Enterprise Guide for managing the process is described.

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