Testing Custom Polygons in SAS Visual Analytics

Once the program has been successfully run, and the web application server has been restarted, SAS Visual Analytics will have access to these new polygons. The program will have output a data set in the MAPSCSTM library that contains a single record for each region generated by the program. The following steps will enable the testing of individual or multiple polygons based on assigned filters.
  1. Sign in to SAS Visual Analytics as a user with exploration and data upload capabilities.
  2. Create a new exploration.
  3. Select a data source. Select Import Datathen selectServerthen selectSAS Data Set
  4. Navigate to the MAPSCSTM location, and select the file that has the polygon name that you want to test (for example, US_COUNTIES1_VALIDATE.sas7bdat).
  5. In the Data pane, right-click ID, and then select Geographythen selectSubdivision (State, Province) SAS Map ID Values. More information about geographic data items can be found in the online documentation for SAS Visual Analytics.
  6. In the Data pane, right-click NAME, and then select Geographythen selectSubdivision (State, Province) Names. From the Country or Region drop-down list, select the region label that you specified in the custom polygon deployment program.
  7. Create a new geo map visualization, and then assign either the NAME data item or the ID data item. On the Roles tab, change the Map Style to Regions and assign a measure to the Color role.
  8. The geo map visualization should now display the custom polygons. Some polygons might not be displayed if the polygons are too close. If there are too many polygons, then an error message might appear.
  9. On the Filters tab, add the ID or NAME data items as filters to inspect the custom polygons more closely.
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Last updated: December 18, 2018