Chapter 6: Advanced Topics – Restructuring Data for Geographic Mapping

6.1 Introduction

Adding analytic graphs to your reports can help enhance your results and provide deeper insights into your data. Each of these objects, however, requires the data to be shaped in a certain way. Before you can use analytic objects in your reports, you will need to ensure that the table is in the correct form. If not, you might need to transform the data. This could mean joining or appending tables, creating new columns or extracting information from a column, filtering tables, or restructuring data. In this chapter, we discuss the various types of analytic objects: geo maps, forecasts, network analysis, path analysis, and text analytics; and you will learn ...

Get SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Viya now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.