In today's Business Intelligence world, self-service, which allows an everyday knowledge worker to explore data and personalize business reports without being tech-savvy, is a prerequisite. The new release of SAS^® Visual Statistics introduces an HTML5-based, easy-to-use user interface that combines statistical modeling, business reporting, and mobile sharing into a one-stop self-service shop. The backbone analytic server of SAS Visual Statistics is also updated, allowing an end user to analyze data of various sizes in the cloud. The paper illustrates this new self-service modeling experience in SAS Visual Statistics using telecom churn data, including the steps of identifying distinct user subgroups using decision tree, building and tuning regression models, designing business reports for customer churn, and sharing the final modeling outcome on a mobile device.

In health care and epidemiological research, there is a growing need for basic graphical output that is clear, easy to interpret, and easy to create. SAS^® 9.3 has a very clear and customizable graphic called a Radar Graph, yet it can only display the unique responses of one variable and would not be useful for multiple binary variables. In this paper we describe a way to display multiple binary variables for a single population on a single radar graph. Then we convert our method into a macro with as few parameters as possible to make this procedure available for everyday users.

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