SAS Tech Report: Animal Shelters and SAS

Dear Reader,

This is the issue where I talk about my dog, Daisy. We adopted Daisy, a black Labrador mix/aka my “first born,” from a local agency in 2009. She’s just the sweetest girl ever with a super mild demeanor. She can be found underneath my 3-year-old’s chair at mealtime, wagging her tail for a walk and looking at me longingly as if to say, “Why?” in the middle of my three kids literally doing flips around her. I can always look to Daisy to embrace a good hug or belly rub. She's easy. Reliable. Part of our family in every way.

We are so lucky to have adopted her, so featuring a data visualization on pet adoption facts thrills me to no end. Using the shelter dataset from the Austin Animal Center in Texas, the graph gives insight into how shelters place animals with loving families. You can play with the data some more in the free SAS trial for SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics.

If you’re drawn to people sharing dog experiences, you’ll enjoy how Cat Truxillo creatively wrapped in her dog’s (rare) habit while explaining rare event charts in this video tutorial.

Thanks for reading.

Anna Brown
Editor, SAS Tech Report
Follow me @abrown7

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