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Click here to see the example.
Click here to see the SAS code (gif animation version).

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This is really 2 samples in one...

When you click on the thumbnail, it takes you to invest.htm
which is the regular version, with html charttips and drilldown.

If you then click on a drilldown/hotspot on the above graph, it will take
you to the animated gif version (invest2.htm).

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This graph uses several 'tricks'.
First the layout - I use a title statement with angle=-90 and a very tall height
to put an invisible title on the right-hand side of the chart, to make a lot of
extra room where I annotate the table of info (using annotate function='label').
In the table, I left-justify the text, and right-justify the numbers (using
annotate position= ).  The red down-arrow is character 'D' from the sas/graph
'marker' software font. (the 'up' arrow would be character 'C').

The graph itself is pretty straightforward, with a few small tricks.
The plot is actually 2 plot lines overlaid - the first line is the 
regular line showing all the data points and no value markers, then
I overlay a 2nd line which just contains the 2 markers for the beginning
and the end data point (I 'skip' all the other datapoints by using 
missing-values in the data.)  In the horizontal axis, I use 'by quarter'
so that it only does a label every 3 months.  And the number & arrow
in the top/right (representing the last datapoint) is annotated.

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