Good morning,
I'm building a SAS Viya dashboard that shows numeric visuals such as bar charts, line-graphs, etc. For example, I may create a bar chart that shows how many people are in each racial subgroup. In my visuals, some data cannot be displayed because it could potentially identify people in the dataset. I'm trying to find a way to:
- Still includes a suppressed category (but does not show data). Preferably, a data value that has been suppressed will be set to 0.
- Identify to users that data isn't showing for a given category because it has been suppressed (reason code).
I pre-aggregate and apply suppression rules on the back end (rather than letting SAS do any aggregations). In order to abide by our suppression policies, any row that should NOT show on the dashboard is coded in the data as follows (all metrics are non-negative):
- -0.10 - Low N Count
- -0.13 - Complementary Suppression
- -0.05 - Top/Bottom coding
At present, I'm just not displaying any suppressed data; however, this is causing confusion for data viewers. I'm looking for a way to indicate that data isn't showing because of suppression issues, rather than something that is wrong with our calculations.
