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whitepaper Get the Best Out of SAS/GRAPH and ODS2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  As the most powerful graphic application development software in the world, SAS/GRAPH has long been rich, and becomes ever richer, in features. With these features comes the need to apply the technology in a communication-effective manner. This paper cuts through what can be the problem of "Options Over-Choice" to empower the user to make elegant and effective graphs. ODS (Output Delivery System), even when its use is limited to web publishing, brings an array of opportunities and challenges of its own. What one can see as web page creator may not agree with what the web browser viewer sees. This paper addresses this and other matters with tips, techniques, and best web practices.

Tags: Software Engineering, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper SAS/GRAPH Procedures for Creating Statistical Graphics in Data Analysis2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  Making a plot of the data is often the first step in a data analysis or a statistical study. In SAS 9.2, SAS/GRAPH introduces a family of new procedures developed for this purpose. These procedures are designed to create stand-alone displays that complement the more specialized graphs produced by the statistical procedures that use the ODS Statistical Graphics infrastructure. Since these new procedures and the statistical procedures use the same infrastructure, graphs created with all of these procedures are consistent in their appearance and in the way they are produced and managed. The new "SG" family of procedures includes SGPLOT, SGPANEL, SGSCATTER, and SGRENDER. This paper provides examples showing how the reader can use these procedures in their own work.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper Graphing Longitudinal Data: Deaf Children in the "Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth"2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  By using SAS and its graphing capabilities exploratory analysis of longitudinal data is for more capable then other methods. Comparing means between groups is too weak of a comparison and does not allow seeing trends or tracking change. OLS trajectories or level-1 models do not track differences among individuals and only shows the change over time. SAS can help visualize the multilevel model by fitting group means overlaid on individual plots. This visualization makes longitudinal analysis easier to grasp.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper Visualizing Statistical Inference Using SAS2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  It is a demanding intention to teach statistics to medical students or physicians. The reason is that they are more firmly rooted in applications rather than in an abstract theoretical framework. Visualization is an excellent tool to improve comprehensibility when explaining dry concepts such as statistical inference. If one desires to draw conclusion from data one has to be familiar with various statistical terms, e.g., p-values, significance level, test statistics, power etc., where at least an intuitive understanding is required. This paper suggests an approach for teaching statistical inference using simulated data together with animated graphics. In particular, the GIFANIM device driver that facilitates animated graphics is discussed and the respective SAS code is presented.

Tags: Programming Languages, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper An Introduction to SAS Stat Studio: A Programmable Successor to SAS/INSIGHT2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  SAS Stat Studio is a new statistical software product: a programmable successor to SAS/INSIGHT. Stat Studio runs on a PC in the Microsoft Windows operating environment and connects with one or more SAS servers. Stat Studio is available in SAS 9.2. Like SAS/INSIGHT, Stat Studio provides dynamically linked graphics for exploring multivariate data and a point-and-click interface for standard statistical analyses. However, Stat Studio extends the functionality of SAS/INSIGHT by providing a programming environment in which one can run SAS/STAT or SAS/IML analyses, and display the results in dynamically linked graphics and data tables. Stat Studio is intended for high-end data analysts.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper How to Make the "Best Choice" From the Many Ways to Create and Deliver SAS Graphs2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  Whether one is a point-and-click user of SAS Enterprise Guide or a code-oriented SAS programmer, one has multiple options for packaging and delivery, and a possibly bewildering array of options and device drivers for graphs. For production packaging, they can go directly to a finished product/file such as HTML for the web, Word compatible RTF, or PDF. For an ad hoc analytical or research project, they may need to insert graphs in a custom, hands-on-developed Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or Microsoft Word document. This paper shares ideas, insights, and practical experience to help readers make the best choice to suit their needs, and to get the best out of option-rich software from the standpoint of usability (i.e., communication effectiveness) and reliability.

Tags: Graphics Applications, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper Animating SAS/GRAPH Output - Telling a Story That Changes Over Time2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  With the rapid advancements in computer processing speeds and high-end graphics displays, we've seen a proliferation of eye-catching animations, multimedia, and special effects in many common applications. This video paper describes an age-old technology - animated GIFS - that can be created and deployed from within SAS/GRAPH software. Animated GIFs can provide additional meaning and information without requiring additional screen space or an investment in faster CPUs, graphics display cards, or software. This paper shows how animated GIFS can be built from simple modifications to the SAS jobs that run every day and deployed using the built-in support for this file format in all the major HTML browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and so on).

Tags: Data Visualization		   
whitepaper Use Transformations to Draw Your Own Great Graphs2007-05-11 JupiterMedia
  Visual Studio comes with a huge number of pre-built components and controls, including controls for entering and displaying text, letting the user pick options and make choices, displaying values graphically, interacting with databases, displaying dialogs, and containing and arranging other controls. But it comes with surprisingly few controls for displaying graphical data. If one doesn't want to shell out big bucks for a third-party graphing control, they are pretty much stuck drawing own pictures on a PictureBox. This paper explains how to use .NET to build graphing control that displays bar, line, and point data either on its own surface, in a printout, or in an image file.

Tags: Data Visualization, Application Development		   
whitepaper Qualities of Perceived Aesthetic in Data Visualization2007-05-03 University Of Sydney
  Through results gathered from a large-scale online survey, this paper empirically investigates the assessment of aesthetic in 11 common data visualization techniques. Visualizations represented in this study were generated from an identical hierarchical dataset and visually normalized to avoid unwanted implications of default application parameters or personal preferences. Results from subjective participant response shows data visualizations that portray non-orthogonal, organic qualities, receive higher aesthetic rankings. Provided rationale further correlate these qualities with animate attributes of motion, growth and evolution, positively affecting the perception of their beauty.

Tags: Data Visualization		   
whitepaper Terrific Transformations2007-05-01 JupiterMedia
  While most developers understand the connection between Pens and Brushes and pens and brushes, they don't realize there are also ways to affect the paper and canvas. Transformations allow a developer to move, rotate, and stretch the canvas. Actually, developers can use transformations to control each drawing operation that are performed, so one can apply different transformations to different parts of the drawing. It's as if a developer makes a pile of transparent canvases - all moved, rotated, and stretched in any way they like. This paper explains how to use .NET transformations to make rotating, stretching, and moving objects simple - even for complex objects such as paths and text.

Tags: .NET, Application Development		   


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