Robert Allison's SAS/Graphic Examples - cd #3
Created: February, 2004

To view these examples, view the "aaaindex.htm" file in an IE browser.
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Similar to my democd1 - here are some more great sas graphics
examples.  This time, the emphasis is on graphics for 
demographic data.  Most of these examples will work at v8.2,
but I do include a few v9 tricks to demonstrate them (such as
the new zipcity function).

Here's how I chose these examples...
I got a copy of the February 2004 "American Demographics" magazine.
And, for each of the graphs and maps in this magazine I tried to
use sas to create a sas imitation (where possible, an 'exact'
imitation).  

Here's how these examples might be useful...

Since SAS runs a full-page inside-cover ad in 'American Demographics' (AD)
that must mean that we think AD readers are potential SAS customers.
If AD readers find the AD graphs useful, they should also be interested
to know that they can use SAS to produce graphs like this.
If we can *show* these potential customers that SAS can produce 
these graphs (rather than just tell them) they will be impressed.

Also, if American Demographics sees that SAS can be used to produce
the types of graphs & maps they use in their magazine, maybe they'd
be interested in using SAS to do their graphics(?)  That would make
a very nice/visible use of SAS, which would help gain exposure for
our graphics capabilities.

Also, these are very nice demographic graphics examples - anyone who
might be interested in demographics might also be interested in 
knowing that sas/graph can do these kinds of graphics.

Also, the Census (one of our biggest customers) might be interested 
in these examples!

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Special Notes:

Note that the map examples were created using sas/graph (proc gmap),
not sas/gis!

I recommend IE rather than netscape because netscape does not
support the html alt= flyover text, which many examples uses.

Hopefully these examples show that sas graphics software can do 
"Just about anything", and the sas code will provide a good
starting-point for sas users who are wanting to create similar
graphics.  Some other graphics software might be easier to use
than sas, but sas graphics gives you the flexibility and power
to produce almost *any* kind of custom graphics you want - and
this can be done programmatically so the production of new/updated
graphics can be easily generalized and automated (whereas most 
other 'easy-to-use' graphics software only provide a GUI-based
interfaces and you have to keep manually re-creating their graphics
over and over.)

In addition to showing the sas graphics capabilities, some of
these examples also make use of sas "ods html" capability,
which provides chart-tip flyover text, drilldowns, hotspots,
borders, and other ods style capabilities.  Note that I've
set up many of the drilldowns such that they tie in to the
actual/real web pages out on the web.

These examples were created using v9 sas on a Windows PC.
They should all be able to run using v8.2 and higher sas,
and they should run ok on Unix also (unix doesn't have all
the fonts, such as "arial", therefore you might have to 
try changing the fonts and font sizes to get them to look
good on unix).  Also, if you leave out the "ods html" stuff,
and the html= drilldown stuff, you should be able to get 
most of the graphs and maps to run in v6 sas as well :)

All of the code for these examples was written by Robert Allison.
These examples (intentionally) look very much like the graphs 
in 'American Demographics', but the examples and sas code
used here were totally written from scratch (ie, no code was 
"borrowed" or "stolen" - it was all written totally from
scratch by Robert Allison).

Be aware that the data used in these examples should all be
considered as contrived/non-accurate data.  In most cases
the values were just 'eyeballed' from the original graph,
and in some cases the data are just totally random/contrived.
The examples were designed to look "plausibly real", but please
do not rely on the data values as being correct!


Robert E. Allison, Jr., PhD
Cary, NC  27513
voice:  xxx-xxx-xxxx
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email:  robincary@gmail.com

v3.0 - initial version

13may2004
 Made correction to annotate variables in media.sas, higher.sas, and sponsor.sas
 Previously I was using 'y=' where I should have used 'x='
 (this produced annotation that looked ok because annotate picks
 good defaults, but was not technically correct.)

27may2004
 Enhanced several examples to use the "arial" hardware font,
 and adjusted my pc's settings such that it would draw the
 characters with anti-aliasing (smoothing of edges).


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And, the standard disclaimers...

This software is being provided "AS IS" without any express or
implied warranties.  SAS Institute Inc. is not liable for any 
damages caused by the use of this software.

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