Visual Analytics
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SAS Visual Analytics: Introduction
Exploring Charts and Graphs
Additional Topics
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What Is SAS Visual Analytics?
SAS Visual Analytics is a web-based product that
leverages SAS High-Performance Analytics technologies to
empower organizations to explore huge volumes of data very quickly
to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities for further analysis.
SAS Visual Analytics: Features
Explore data
Analyze massive Import data
amounts of data
Create reports Share insights
SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)
Resilient
High speed
Scalable
Node-to-node Fault tolerance
communication
SAS Viya Architecture
SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)
Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Massively Parallel Processing (MPP)
SAS Viya Applications
SAS Drive
SAS Data Studio SAS Visual Analytics
SAS Environment
Manager SAS Visual Analytics App
SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)
SAS Graph Builder SAS Theme Designer
SAS Visual Analytics Methodology
Access Investigate Prepare Analyze Report
Visual Analytics Users
Analyst Analyst
Data Scientist Data Administrator
SAS Visual Analytics
Administrator Information Consumer
Product Report
SAS Visual Analytics: Introduction
Exploring Charts and Graphs
Additional Topics
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Objects: Graphs (Descriptive)
Use a box plot to view information
Use a histogram to view
about the variability of the
the distribution of
data and extreme values.
a single measure.
Objects: Graphs (Descriptive)
Nominal values Time series data
• Use a bar chart to compare summarized data for the following:
Rankings Parts of a whole
Objects: Graphs (Analysis)
Use a bubble plot to display three
dimensions of data (horizontal Use a treemap to display a lot of
location, vertical location, size of information in a small amount of space.
bubble) for some group of Use size and color to draw attention to
category values. specific areas of interest.
Objects: Graphs (Analysis)
Use a correlation matrix to
evaluate the linear relationship Use a scatter plot to evaluate the
between measures. relationship between two measures.
Use a heat map to evaluate the relationship between
two high-cardinality measures, between two
categories, or between a category and a measure.
Linear
Fit Lines ρ
Quadratic
Cubic PSpline
SAS Visual Analytics: Introduction
Exploring Charts and Graphs
Additional Topics
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Objects: Graphs (Time Plots)
Use a time series plot to show Use a line chart to show trends over
trends of measures over time. some ordinal variable
(time, age group).
Objects: Analytics (Forecasting)
Confidence
interval
Hindcast
Historical
values Use a forecasting
object to show
estimates of future
values based on
historical trends in
the data.
Predicted
values
