Spread some love with SAS Visual Analytics

[FalkoSchulz]

Why not use SAS Visual Analytics and one of my favorite coordinate plot visualizations to spread some love this season! For this example - I'm borrowing some existing ASCII arts from site https://www.asciiart.eu/holiday-and-events/valentine - but you can easily apply this example to other drawings or try with your own creativity.

I simply copied the related text into a text file (vi.txt) and wrote a short SAS data step to generate a data set for my SAS Visual Analytics report. 

filename in "vi.txt";

/* the width of the grid depends on the input data */
%let GRID_WIDTH=68;
data valentine(compress=yes);
	infile in truncover;
	input line $CHAR&GRID_WIDTH..;
   
    /* generate 4 columns: X/Y (coordinates), C (color code) and DATE */
	length x y c date 8.;
	format date year.;

	y = &GRID_WIDTH. - _n_;
	do i = 1 to &GRID_WIDTH.;
		tmp = put(line,$char&GRID_WIDTH..);
   		n = substrn(tmp,i,1);
		c = rank(n); /* a simple rank to distinguish between different chars */
		x = i;		
		if (c ne 32) then do; /* */
			id = put(x,z2.) || put(y,z2.);
			if (c eq 88) then c = 100; /* 'X' */

            /* animate the color code for some color ranges (>100) */
			do year = 1950 to 1960 by 1;
				date = mdy(1,1,year);
				if (c ge 100) then c = c + (year - 1950);
				output;
			end;
			do year = 1961 to 1970 by 1;
				date = mdy(1,1,year);
				if (c ge 100) then c = c - (year - 1950);
				output;
			end;
		end;
	end;

	keep id y x c date;
run;

With that data set loaded into SAS Visual Analytics, we can add a coordinate plot visualization to the canvas. I decided to use the Geo Coordinate object as it allows me to animate the data using a date variable. The original geo map background is hidden using related option in the Options panel. As geographic item, I used the ID variable with related X & Y coordinates variables and a custom coordinate space EPSG:900913 for better flat rendering of the data points.

SAS Visual Analytics report - Spreading Love

Some finishing touches around additional header and footer - produces the example above.

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!

[MichelleHomes]

Struck by Cupid's arrow, @FalkoSchulz?

L❤️VE it!

Cheers,

Michelle

[Bjones81]

Amazing!!!!