SAS Bowl XIII, Graphically Speaking blog
In the SAS Communities Library there are hundreds thousands of helpful articles on just about any SAS related topic. SAS also has a very active blog site, again with years worth of posts, on many different topics. For the next SAS Bowl, we'll turn our focus to one of the more popular blogs: Graphically Speaking.
SAS Bowl XIII, Graphically Speaking blog, is scheduled for Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 4 PM ET.
Graphically Speaking blog 411
The Graphically Speaking blog focuses on the usage of ODS Graphics for data visualization in SAS. The blog covers topics related to the Statistical Graphics procedures, the Graph Template Language and the ODS Graphics Designer.
The blog is written and curated by familiar SAS Community Super Freqs @GraphGuy and @DanH_sas. The duo somehow publish on a weekly basis, on some of the most interesting topics found on the site.
Resources
It was extremely hard to whittle down the vast archive to focus on a few posts. Here is a list of we'll use to pull questions from for the SAS Bowl.
- Cary NC data - parks and trails - uses Proc SGmap and a tile background, with markers and lines overlaid
- SAS graphs for R programmers - maps from shapefiles - imports a Shapefile, and overlays choro polygons on Proc SGmap tiles
- SAS graphs for R programmers - paneled graphs - introduces and uses Proc SGpanel
- SAS graphs for R programmers - needle plots - needle plot in Proc SGplot, showing gasoline prices (a timely topic):
- These mortgage rates look shady to me! - shading areas in a line plot
- Will vinyl records outsell CDs in 2019? - an analysis using a stacked bar chart
This list misses some of my top picks (see the end of this post for my faves). I HIGHLY encourage you to view the blog and dig into more of it's awesomeness. I truly check the blogs site on a weekly basis to see what's new.
SAS Bowl and event details
For those who may be new to the SAS Bowl, you can find game history and specifics in this Community memo. There you'll also find links to previous events, which include recordings.
Add the game to your calendar, download the article attachment for an event reminder, or select the 'Yes' option to the right in this Community Calendar Event. No pre-registration is required. On game day, access the game URL, provide your SAS Support Communities username (so we can identify you when you win), and show off your SAS and worldly knowledge while competing for bragging rights and SAS Community game gear.
'See' you October 12!
More from the blog
Here are some of my favorite posts. They won't necessarily provide content for the game, but are certainly worth a read.
- How to make your data look worse (than it really is)
- Animating US COVID-19 data over time, on a county map
- Cracking the code, of the Star Wars timeline!
- Where can you own a pet kangaroo in the US?
- The "who can't spell what" map
