SAS® Visual Data Discovery
Interactive data visualization for analytics
SAS Visual Data Discovery provides a point-and-click interface to the advanced analytic capabilities of SAS. It enhances advanced analytics and exploratory data analysis with interactive data visualization, leading to better analyses, faster decisions and more effective presentations of analytic results. SAS Visual Data Discovery combines top-selling SAS products (Base SAS, SAS/STAT® and SAS/GRAPH®), along with two interfaces (SAS® Enterprise Guide® for guided tasks and batch analysis and JMP® software for discovery and exploratory analysis).
Benefits
- Allows users to interact with graphs to clarify results and take action.
- Provides immediacy and responsiveness for greater productivity.
- Exports interactive animations to insert into presentations, Web pages and other documents.
- Overcomes data limitations.
- Provides a powerful and comprehensive analytical environment without having to code.
- Helps achieve corporate and governmental compliance.
- Lets users create and utilize custom add-ins.
Features
- Highly interactive statistical graphics
- Visual querying and data filtering
- Extensible visual analytics
- Comprehensive set of tools for advanced statistical analysis
- Core SAS® capabilities
How SAS® Is Different
- SAS Visual Data Discovery overcomes the inherent limitations in spreadsheets, static graphs, charts and tabular reports, providing a nonprogramming environment for exploratory data analysis.
- It enhances advanced analytics and exploratory data analysis with interactive data visualization, leading to better analysis, better decisions and more effective presentation of analytic results.
- Unmatched advanced analytics and interactive data visualization deliver the ability to explore ideas, investigate patterns, discover previously hidden facts and reveal opportunities through visual queries.
Benefits
- Allows users to interact with graphs to clarify results and take action. SAS Visual Data Discovery provides exploratory data analysis and interactive data visualization in an extendable point-and-click environment, dynamically linking statistics with graphics.
- Provides immediacy and responsiveness for greater productivity. All data is held in memory during visualization, rather than having to wait while data is moved from and to disk. It takes advantage of multithreading to work faster in multiprocessor machines.
- Exports interactive animations to insert into presentations, Web pages and other documents. Show your colleagues what you've discovered and let them interact with the visualizations – and see for themselves.
- Overcomes data limitations. There are no limitations on table sizes, so you are limited only by your operating system and your computer's RAM.
- Provides a powerful and comprehensive analytical environment without having to code. Users can point-and-click their way through the interface and customize analyses with their own SAS programs. There are two interface options to choose from. SAS® Enterprise Guide® lets users build queries, manipulate and update data, perform simple to complex analyses and run analyses in batch mode if desired. JMP® offers a discovery and exploration interface with interactive analysis capabilities. Add-ins for JMP provide GUIs for structural equation modeling and for econometrics and time-series analysis without writing any code.
- Helps achieve corporate and governmental compliance. You can generate repeatable results that are easily documented and verified.
- Lets users create and utilize custom add-ins. It's easier than ever to extend the use of powerful analytics throughout your organization. You can create custom analytic applications (add-ins) to share with other users. You can even customize menus and toolbars for your add-in.
Features
- Highly interactive statistical graphics
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- Animated bubble plots show data with sized bubbles that move over time.
- 3-D scatter plots with categorical and continuous data.
- Scatter plot matrix with categorical and continuous data.
- Trellis plots.
- Summary charts.
- Line plots.
- Cell plots.
- Needle charts.
- Creation of new graphics via the JMP Scripting Language.
- Incorporate geographic maps into graphs.
- All graphics interact via the data table with brushing, highlighting, hiding and other capabilities.
- Many other graphical reports are available.
- Interactive Adobe Flash animations can be exported for use in presentations, Web pages and other documents.
- Path diagrams.
- Visual querying and data filtering
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- Handle virtually unlimited data.
- Rearrange data at will.
- Interactively tabulate data.
- View and interact with dynamically linked statistics and graphics.
- Extensible visual analytics
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- Extend analytics capabilities by adding custom analyses with the SAS programming language.
- Integration with the R open-source statistical programming language.
- Add-in for Microsoft Excel.
- Comprehensive set of tools for advanced statistical analysis
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- Analysis of variance.
- Regression.
- Categorical data analysis.
- Multivariate analysis.
- Survival analysis.
- Psychometric analysis.
- Cluster analysis.
- Nonparametric analysis.
- Survey data analysis.
- Multiple imputation for missing values.
- Power and sample size computation.
- Time series analysis.
- Design of experiments.
- Nonlinear modeling.
- Decision trees.
- Mixed models.
- Bayesian analysis.
- Structural equation modeling (with point-and-click interface).
- Core SAS® capabilities
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- SAS® Analytics.
- SAS® Stored Processes.
- Integrated metadata.
- SAS code.
- SAS reports.
- SAS output.
Demos
Case study: Explore employee salary data
This demo presents a short case study using employee salary data. It demonstrates how the seamless integration of SAS and JMP lets users see the full picture of what is happening in their data.
Screenshots
A scatter plot with nonparametric density contours and marginal distributions
This scatter plot with nonparametric density contours and marginal distributions shows where the data is most dense.
Motion-enabled bubble plots show the variation in the value of any variable over time.
Motion-enabled bubble plots show the variation in the value of any specified variable over time, business segment and company name.
The prediction profiler with simulation and optimization capabilities can be used to meet specific financial goals.
The prediction profiler with simulation and optimization capabilities can be used to meet specific financial goals by determining the best mix of four mutual funds in a portfolio.
3-D surface plots allow you to explore complex multidimensional spaces.
3-D surface plots allow you to explore complex multidimensional spaces in an interactive environment that can be rotated.
With categorical analysis, you can analyze multiple-response data from such things as surveys, defect records and clinical trials.
SAS Visual Data Discovery provides a point-and-click interface to the advanced analytic capabilities of SAS.
System Requirements
Technical Requirements for SAS® Visual Data Discovery: Desktop Version
Client Environment
- Microsoft Windows (32-bit): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista*, Windows 7**
- Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
* NOTE: Windows Vista supported editions are: Enterprise, Ultimate and Business.
** NOTE: Windows 7 supported editions are: Enterprise, Ultimate and Professional.
Supported Web Browers
- Internet Explorer 7 and 8: Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64)
- Firefox 3.6 : Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64), Linux 32-bit, Linux x64
Software Included
Technical Requirements for SAS® Visual Data Discovery: Enterprise Version
Client Environment
- Microsoft Windows (32-bit): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista*, Windows 7**
- Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64
Supported Web Browsers
- Internet Explorer 7 and 8: Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64)
- Firefox 3.6 : Windows Vista* (32-bit and x64), Windows 7** (32-bit and x64), Windows XP Professional (32-bit and x64), Linux 32-bit, Linux x64
Server Environment
- HP/UX on Itanium: 11iv3 (11.31)
- HP/UX on PA-RISC: 11iv3 (11.31)
- IBM AIX on POWER architectures: 6.1 and 7.1
- IBM z/OS: V1R10 and higher
- Linux (32-bit): Novell SuSE 10 and 11; RHEL 5 and 6
- Linux x64 (64-bit): Novell SuSE 10 and 11; RHEL 5 and 6; Oracle Linux 5.5 and 6
- Microsoft Windows (32-bit): Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista *, Windows 7**, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family
- Microsoft Windows on x64 (64-bit): Windows XP Professional for x64, Windows Vista* for x64, Windows 7** for x64, Windows Server 2003 family for x64, Windows Server 2008 family for x64
- Solaris on SPARC: Version 10 Update 8
- Solaris on x64 (x64-86): Version 10 Update 8
* NOTE: Windows Vista supported editions are Enterprise, Business and Ultimate
** NOTE: Windows 7 supported editions are Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate
Software Included
- Base SAS®
- SAS/GRAPH®
- SAS/STAT®
- SAS® Enterprise Guide®
- SAS® Integration Technologies
- One SAS/ACCESS® engine of choice
- JMP®
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