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Chair: George Fernandez

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The Reporting and Information Visualization section is seeking for papers on visualizing and presenting data innovative ways. Effective, interactive, and dynamic data visualization of multidimensional data can significantly improve productivity via enhanced analytic effectiveness. Submitting papers utilizing in the following SAS applications related to making information more readable, understandable and effective are encouraged.

• SAS Enterprise BI Web applications (SAS Web Report Studio and the SAS Information Delivery Portal)
• Application using SAS® Business Visualization tools
• Graphical applications using ActiveX® Drill-Down Graphs and GTL (Graphics Template Language)
• Effective reports using Output Delivery System (ODS) and SAS Enterprise Guide®.
• Applications utilizing SAS integration technologies with Microsoft Office.
• Statistical applications utilizing ODS Statistical Graphics to interactive IML Stat Studio graphics
• SAS Visual Data Discovery tools for visual analytics, visual querying and data filtering

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Add Spices to Your Graphs Using the Annotate Facility

One of the most powerful features in SAS®/GRAPH is the Annotate facility. The Annotate facility uses a SAS data set to store the graphics instructions. Each observation in SAS data set corresponds to an instruction and the variables provide all information required to process each instruction. You can use the Annotate facility to add text, lines, bars, pie slices, or map to SAS/GRAPH procedure output. You can also produce custom graphics using the Annotate facility with the GSLIDE or GANNO procedures.

It sounds complicated but you definitely can grasp it within couple hours after you are guided through the paper. The basic necessary elements for developing the Annotate facility are introduced nicely by asking five “W” questions. The paper also shows you a simple way to debug the Annotate data set.

The paper shows how to place text on specific location and label data points for the X/Y plots through example. The elements of Bar charts are relabeled axis and a customized text is added through the Annotate facility. The Maps generated by GMAP can be added some spices using the Annotate facility.

The paper also shows you how to place custom graphic elements or other graphic enhancements on large number of graphs automatically based on the data from the Annotate facility constructed. This will eliminate a lot of manual processes.

SAS Integration with Flash/Flex

How can SAS content be visualized using Adobe Flash or Flex modules. For example, a dynamic interface to a graph.