Information can be easier
to understand when it appears in an intentional order. Applying a
sort order to one or more data items in SAS
Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) enables
you to arrange rows and columns in tables and axis labels on charts
in some order, such as alphabetically or highest to lowest numerically.
Interactively changing the order of data can provide you with a different
perspective that often facilitates valuable insight. For example,
in a report, sales employees who are initially arranged alphabetically
can be re-sorted by sales amount.
Ranking can help reduce
the amount of visible data and is often used in combination with sorting.
For more information,
see Adding a New Rank.