SAS Color Graphics

Duration:

3 days

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

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 Addressed

This course addresses the following software product(s): SAS/GRAPH.