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ballardw · ‎10-03-2016

For added fun: Normalize this to the number of games played.

SteveBittner · ‎09-13-2016

Very likely size is an issue. You might try the map file coded by TC above. It may skip most of the complexity

ballardw · ‎08-22-2016

And, to add to @Quentin, there is only reaction time included once at the start. The 3 subsequent runners get to see the oncoming team member and start moving as desired. Cutting out 3 reactions to start could well be nearly .6 seconds overall.

tc · ‎08-16-2016

Oops, maybe if I'd heeded PGStats' suggestion, I could have had my work in the New York Times. Yesterday the NYT ran Usain Bolt and the Fastest Men in the World Since 1896 - on the Same Track, which bears a strong resemblance to the Tableau chart that I critiqued above, which bears a strong resemblance to a 2012 NYT chart of 100m sprinters, which bears a strong resemblance to a 2012 NYT chart of 100m swimmers... However, the three NYT'ers credited with the story do hint that the positions of the fastest men in the world on their charts don't really represent where the runners actually were on the track after 9.63 seconds, Usain Bolt's winning 100m time in 2012. "We then pitted these runners against each other in an imaginary race, using their average speeds," is how the NY Times explains its methodology. So, when the NY Times says, "we have Tom Burke, who won in Athens in 1896. His time, 12 seconds, puts him more than 60 feet behind the Bolts", keep in mind that this was figured using a simple calculation - (100m - 100m/12s * 9.63s) * 3.28084ft/m = 65ft - that's based on the assumption that sprinters have the same average velocity throughout a race, which Wired painstakingly illustrated is clearly not the case. Oh well, good enough for NYT work.

MichelleHomes · ‎08-09-2016

Love these visualizations and not only because it shows the Gold medal Australian swimmers. I like @tc how your visual also looks like the pool with the lanes, was that something you had in mind? I like your splits comparison chart @Jay54, although I think I'd prefer to see the fastest time figure at the end of the bar group for each split instead. Nice SASsy #dataviz work!

rogerjdeangelis · ‎07-24-2016

Very neat

tc · ‎07-19-2016

If your'e on a platform w/PIPE support: %macro testio; Filename in pipe 'echo 1 14.5 2 17.9 3 20.5 4 24.4 '; Data Standardscoretable; infile in; input Rawscore standardscore@@; %mend; %testio; run; If you go multi-line with the data, make sure each line has a trailing space!

tc · ‎05-22-2016

Looking to learn SAS ODS Graphics? How about a new way of creating ODS Graphics charts from within Excel? Linked-to below are the materials for Creating and Sharing SAS ODS Graphics with a Code Playground Based on Microsoft Office. WCSUG SAS Meetup YouTube "trailer" SGF 2016 Paper (PDF-579KB) SGF 2016 PowerPoint slides (PDF-5.98MB) Excel-based "Code Playground" (.xlsb-847KB) Code Playground Setup Instructions (PDF-686KB) The 9-page PowerPoint PDF contains 22 SAS ODS Graphics examples - think of it as your intro to Warren F. Kuhfeld's fine 217-page Basic ODS Graphics Examples! No warranties, express or implied, as the Big Software Dogs say. 🙂

tc · ‎05-01-2016

There's more than one way to "skin" a polygon with ODS Graphics. 🙂 Using the label and labelattrs options to display the state labels eliminates the need for a TEXTPLOT statement: proc template; define statgraph ustemplate; begingraph; entrytitle "Per Pupil Public Elementary/HS Spending By State (2013)"; layout overlayequated / border=false xaxisopts=(display=none) yaxisopts=(display=none); polygonplot id=id x=x y=y / colorresponse=percapitaspend colormodel=(red blue green) dataskin=matte name="spend" display=(FILL) labelattrs=(color=white size=10pt weight=bold) label=statecode; continuouslegend "spend"; endlayout; endgraph; end; run; proc sgrender data=statespend template=ustemplate; run;

MichelleHomes · ‎03-21-2016

Talk about pulling a rabbit out of a hat Love your creativity! Well done. Kind Regards, Michelle

tc · ‎02-24-2016

In response to my cry for help on SAS-L, Rick Wicklin suggested that if I didn't want to delve into the world of algebraic geometry just yet, I could probably obtain a better plot simply by finagling around the problematic x=0 and y=0 points, which indeed did the trick (thanks, Rick!). Before and after images, together with the two lines of code that were tweaked to address the "crumbling" at the top and sides of the "before" Valentine:

ballardw · ‎01-04-2016

Since it was mentioned in the introduction, I would wonder what advantage this approach has for use with the CDC BRFSS data for SAS users. CDC provides the data in ASCII format with SAS programs to read the data or SAS transport format files as well as a well of documentation related to collection, weighting and calculating variables. I sort of understand use for a topic like the White House visitors log as it changes frequently but the BRFSS data sets, barring major corrections of some sort, are pretty static once they are released.

ChrisHemedinger · ‎01-04-2016

This is excellent @tc! Thanks for sharing!

MichelleHomes · ‎12-20-2015

An awesome trignometric SASmas tree! Nice work.

ciro · ‎12-02-2014

Thank you very much Robert, I'll try it. And thanks to everybody. This forum is just awesome.

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