SAS Color Graphics

Duration: 3.0 days Course fee: $1,725 EPTO units: 3.3 CEUs: 1.8

This course teaches you how to produce high-quality presentation graphics using SAS/GRAPH software.

Learn how to

control the appearance of text in reports
create two-dimensional displays of data
create bar charts and pie charts
create geographic representations of data
produce clickable and printable graphic reports.

Who should attend

Experienced SAS programmers

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have completed the SAS Programming I: Essentials course or have equivalent knowledge. Specifically, you should be able to

submit SAS programs on your operating system
use the DATA step to create and combine SAS data sets
use SAS formats
create formats for recoding data values
use the PRINT and SORT procedures.

Knowledge of SAS can be gained from the SAS Programming I: Essentials course or the Introduction to Programming Concepts Using SAS Software course.

Course Contents

Introduction

features of SAS/GRAPH software
SAS/GRAPH programs
enhancing the appearance of graphs
SAS/GRAPH output
useful resources

Bar Charts

creating bar charts using the GCHART procedure
selecting a summary statistic
displaying chart statistics
enhancing basic bar charts
defining the style and color of bar fill
grouped and subgrouped bar charts
distributing color and patterns

Pie Charts

creating basic pie charts
selecting a summary statistic
displaying pie labels and statistics
controlling fill color and patterns
additional customization options for pie charts

Scatter Plots and Line Plots

creating plots with the GPLOT procedure
controlling axis appearance
specifying plot lines and symbols
multiple plots and plot lines
additional customization options for scatter and line plots
vertical bar charts with a plot line overlay
three-dimensional surface and scatter plots (self-study)
contour plots (self-study)

Maps

introduction to mapping
data sets used by the GMAP procedure
the GMAP procedure
controlling the appearance of maps
projecting map data sets (self-study)
removing internal boundaries from maps (self-study)

Viewing, Printing, and Using Graphs in Other Applications

how SAS/GRAPH creates output
displaying and printing graphs
creating image and document files
using ODS to create graphics output files
using ODS to create clickable graphs (self-study)
creating a Web page with thumbnail images (self-study)
creating client graphics (ActiveX and Java)

Customizing the Appearance of Graphs

using GOPTIONS to customize graphs
SAS/GRAPH colors and fonts
titles and footnotes
additional text control options
the AXIS statement
the LEGEND statement

Enhancing SAS/GRAPH Output Using the Annotate Facility

introduction to annotation
annotate variables
annotating X/Y plots
annotating bar charts
annotating maps (self-study)
annotating maps using unprojected coordinates (self-study)

Managing and Replaying SAS/GRAPH Output

storing and naming graphics output
using the GREPLAY procedure in full-screen mode
using templates
creating and modifying templates (self-study)
using the GREPLAY procedure in line mode

Software

This course addresses SAS/GRAPH.

Course Materials

Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.

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