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FalkoSchulz · ‎06-07-2018

The following SAS Visual Analytics report example uses data from the Forest Service Research group at the United States Department of Agriculture. It shows wildfire occurrences across the United States from 1992 to 2015. Collected from records from federal, state, and local fire organizations - we can see distribution of fire hotspots across the states. Click to enlarge The example shows details about common causes of fire as well as what time of the year fires are likely to occur. I also added a detailed snapshot of the devastating fires in Florida back in 2008. Update March 2020: If you are interested seeing how the report was created - have a look at the following speed-art version: In fast-forward motion it shows how elements were added to the canvas, what customization tasks have been done and how everything is compiled into the final infographic.

FalkoSchulz · ‎06-01-2018

Hi David, Can you quickly confirm whether you got the sample data to work properly? Note, that replacing some of the lookup tables requires a restart of the web application server as per instructions. In regards to step #4 - here you are starting to define geographical items. One for US States (state boundaries) and one for US Counties at step #7. Given counties aren't unique via it's name - we typically use the related ID as the lookup value ( US-<StateFIPS><CountyFIPS>). If you don't have the ID column in your data - you will need to join a data source which has related FIPS codes and create such column. Hope this helps. Regards, Falko

FalkoSchulz · ‎05-31-2018

Hi, Unfortunately some of the advanced analytics visualization are not supported in the report designer application back in version VA 7.x. This has been resolved in VA 8.x since both have been merged into a single interface. Hopefully a version you can upgrade to soon? There isn't a good work-around available other than taking an image snapshot of the related visualization I believe or of course use a different visualization altogether. Regards, Falko

SundareshS · ‎05-23-2018

Yes, it does. Thanks again! regards Sundar

FalkoSchulz · ‎01-17-2018

Hi, No, unfortunately there isn't a default setting for the drive-time analysis in VA 8.x. But being able to select a default metric unit makes sense and I forwarded your request to product management to be considered in the next release. Regards, Falko

egwilliamson · ‎01-12-2018

Falko, Thank you for your response to my posting. When working with SAS Tech Support it was discovered that there were root process, from a previous reboot, that were taking up the needed ports for when the 'sas' user was attempting to reboot. Troubleshooting steps lead us to delete those processes and re-attempt. Once the processes were killed, the 'sas' user was able to reboot successfully and the Web Portal was accessible. Regards,

FalkoSchulz · ‎01-10-2018

I'm not too familiar with this topic but there has been a related SGF paper which may be of interest: https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings15/SAS1385-2015.pdf. From my understanding after successful login - the SASLogin page should automatically forward to the default VA application (VA Hub). Maybe there are some configuration steps still missing? Especially the Apache httpd and Tomcat valve configuration seems to be of importance here. Hope this helps. Regards, Falko

FalkoSchulz · ‎11-17-2017

Thanks Marie. Yes, there are plans to support multiple overlays for geo in the upcoming release. Thanks again for your feedback - I will pass this on to our development teams as well. Regards, Falko

Xiaoping · ‎11-16-2017

Thanks ! that's the method I am using. I use "." instead of "Missing", it works perfectly in the Event view (only showing a dot , no flow from . to real event), but not looks nicely for the pathway views , ie including the . event (blank event) in the pathways. Anyway , thanks a lot ! hopefully SAS VA new version will consider this scenario . Cheers, xiaoping

ayushupadhyay22 · ‎10-16-2017

I just checked I am using 7.3. Thanks

panvart · ‎10-13-2017

Hi Falko, I agree with merging not possible logically and thank you for confirming. I will try to generate data structure as you mentioned using JOIN on dummy dates table or some other way using SQL. I will update you. Thanks a lot. -pankaj

FalkoSchulz · ‎10-12-2017

Hi, Unfortunately Sankey Diagrams are one of the Visual Analytics Explorer only visualizations and can't be exported to reports in VA 7.x. Except taking an image snapshot - there aren't really any work-arounds unfortunately. Starting with SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 all visualizations now share a single interface and as such available for reporting as they are for exploration. Unfortunately Sankey Diagrams were not available in VA 8.1 but will be part of the upcoming release 8.2 - available later this year. Hope this helps. Cheers, Falko

ScottJP · ‎10-12-2017

Ok thanks, understood.

FalkoSchulz · ‎10-12-2017

Well, as I said - as soon as you need interactivity things become a bit tricky - and shows the limitation of this work-around. You could setup interactivity using the Vector Plot but I believe it only supports such if you assign a group-by variable. To get the same results you may have to adjust your data set to include a unique value per row unless your data set already supports group-by. Hopefully you are able to upgrade to VA 8.x soon. Cheers, Falko

FalkoSchulz · ‎09-20-2017

Thanks! Yes, I believe the code at @Rick_SAS blog post is pretty basic and just grabs the first ZIP coordinate but probalby sufficient for this small excercise. I guess if you want to properly determine the SCF's location you probably need to get the boundary data set as per link in my first reply and determine the centroid for each polygon. After all - a SCF is an area not a location. There are various ways to do this including the official SAS/GRAPH %CENTROID macro, one @SanjayM wrote or via SAS/IML as outlined in another post from Rick. Since VA 7.4 and upcoming VA 8.2 support custom polygons - the best solution may however to import the boundary data set and render a regional map Cheers, Falko

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