Maps Made Easy Using SAS (Art Carpenter's SAS Software) (Art Carpenter's SAS Software)

By Mike Zdeb

Bring your data to life and add meaning to your information with Maps Made Easy Using SAS. Abundant real-world examples and a tutorial approach help new users create maps easily and quickly. You will learn the basic mapping components, including map and response data sets as well as simple SAS/GRAPH statements. With in-depth examples you will move on to more advanced mapping techniques, such as annotating maps and producing customized maps and output. The process used to annotate maps is demystified and described in clear, easy-to-follow steps. You will produce data-driven, updatable maps in GIF format for use in Web-based presentations and other applications. Also presented are details on creating more complicated choropleth maps. These include maps that combine geographic areas with internal boundaries removed, maps that display multiple geographic areas, and clipped maps. Enhance your data presentations with this well-organized guide. This book is part of the SAS Press program.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590470931
• ISBN13: 9781590470930
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: SAS Institute
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Review of Map Made Easy Using SAS

This is a tremendous resource and one that I highly recommend. The author has the ability to guide a novice through some rather complicated procedures. A lot of people including our librarian looked at how old the book is negatively. In the computer world, things change so fast that something may be out of date after only a few years. Fortunately, SAS updates its facilities while keeping its core the same, so something done even more than a decade ago (the book is not that old but I am) is still good with its latest version. Thus the book should stay very helpful for years to come.

Excellent brief tutorial

Not really for beginners but the book is an excellent addition to any SAS library. Zdeb is basically the Merlin of SAS.

Maps Made Easy

Very detailed descriptions for a very difficult topic. Mike Zdeb is clear and concise in how to use the SAS to create professional-looking maps. Would love to see more examples.

The best book available on sas/graph 'proc gmap'

I have been a sas/graph user for 10+ years, and consider myself a sas/graph gmap expert -- and I certainly wish this book had been available 10 years ago, when I was trying to learn all this 'proc gmap' stuff on my own! :) This book teaches you everything you need to know, in order to understand how sas/graph gmap works, and how to get your data on the map in a variety of ways. It even gets into some of the new areas, such as the interactive web-versions of sas/graph gmap output. This book is a *very* powerful tool! (This book is my 2nd favorite sas/graph book of all time, second only to "SAS/Graph Examples, Version 6" ... and when it comes to maps, this one is perhaps even more useful :)