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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. It combines three of SAS' most popular software products (Base SAS®, SAS/STAT® and SAS/GRAPH®) with JMP®.

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.

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Features

  • Highly interactive statistical graphics
  • Visual querying and data filtering
  • Extensible visual analytics
  • Comprehensive set of tools for advanced statistical analysis
  • Core SAS® capabilities

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Screenshots

A scatter plot with nonparametric density contours and marginal distributions

Screenshot: A scatter plot with nonparametric density contours and marginal distributions
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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.
  • Helps achieve corporate and governmental compliance. You can generate repeatable results that are easily documented and verified.

Features

Highly interactive statistical graphics

  • 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.
  • Needle charts.
  • Creation of new graphics via the JSL programming language.
  • All graphics interact via the data table with brushing, highlighting, hiding and other capabilities.
  • Many other graphical reports.
  • Export interactive Adobe Flash animations to insert into presentations, Web pages and other documents.
Visual querying and data filtering
  • Handle virtually unlimited data.
  • Rearrange data at will.
  • Interactively tabulate data.
  • View and interact with dynamically linked statistics and graphics.
Extensible visual analytics
  • Extend beyond built-in analytics capabilities by adding custom analyses with the SAS programming language.
Comprehensive set of tools for advanced statistical analysis
  • 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.
Core SAS® capabilities
  • SAS® Analytics.
  • SAS® Stored Processes.
  • Integrated metadata.
  • SAS code.
  • SAS reports.
  • SAS output.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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With categorical analysis, you can analyze multiple-response data from such things as surveys, defect records and clinical trials.

With categorical analysis, you can analyze multiple-response data from such things as surveys, defect records and clinical trials.

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SAS Visual Data Discovery provides a point-and-click interface to the advanced analytic capabilities of SAS.

SAS Visual Data Discovery provides a point-and-click interface to the advanced analytic capabilities of SAS.

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System Requirements

Technical Requirements for SAS® Visual Data Discovery: Desktop Version

Client environment
  • Windows (x86-32): Windows NT and Windows Vista (Enterprise, Business and Ultimate editions)
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6
Software included
  • Base SAS®
  • SAS/GRAPH®
  • SAS/STAT®
  • SAS® Enterprise Guide®
  • JMP®

Technical Requirements for SAS® Visual Data Discovery: Enterprise Version

Client environment
  • Windows (x86-32): Windows NT and Windows Vista (Enterprise, Business and Ultimate editions)
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6
Server environment
  • AIX: Release 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 on POWER
  • HP-UX PA-RISC: Release 11i Version 1, 2 and 3
  • HP-UX Itanium: Release 11i Version 1, 2 and 3
  • Linux for x86 (x86-32): Red Hat Linux 8.0, RHAS 2.1, RHEL 3.0 and 4.0, SuSE SLES 8 and 9
  • Solaris on SPARC: Version 8, 9, 10
  • Solaris on x64: Version 10
  • Windows (x86-32): Windows NT 4 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003
  • Windows (on Itanium): Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems
Software included
  • Base SAS®
  • SAS/GRAPH®
  • SAS/STAT®
  • SAS® Enterprise Guide®
  • SAS® Integration Technologies
  • SAS/ACCESS® engine of choice
  • JMP®
 

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