Once you start looking at your Google Analytics, it is thrilling to see that visitors are coming to your humble Web site and some even return. Your first inclination is to create fancy charts to show the traffic patterns, compare the patterns by day of week, segment into New and Returning visitors, soon your...
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Google Analytics uses data from your Website to prepare a neat looking application where you can explore your data and answer what I consider your first-level questions. First-level questions are the most basic things you might want to know, such as How many? What Time Period? It is the second- and third-level questions where...
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SAS Web Report Studio has some features that help can improve the overall appearance or just shake things up a little. You can change the template for individual reports in cases where you need to better highlight an idea. Tip! Check out the Information is Beautiful site for some inspirational ideas about presenting data....
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This past week I have been studying the Google Analytics data to determine the best topics to discuss in the upcoming month and to prepare the SAS Global Forum 2012 conference. Google Analytics allows me to measure which posts get the most hits when posted and continue to be popular or referenced. I’ll unveil...
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Since September, Angela and I have been actively posting on this blog about the SAS Business Intelligence toolset. It has been a lot of fun and thanks to all of your encouragement and kind comments. I’ll share some stats with you data geeks today! (I know it’s like Christmas all over!!) BI-Notes Blog Traffic...
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Conditional highlighting, also referred to as traffic lighting, helps report consumers quickly recognize when the data is showing the desired trends based on their targets. Today I’ll talk about the color choices for the highlighting from MS Excel, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS Stored Processes. Conditional Highlighting Example Web Report Studio allows you...
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After you have setup the cascading filter from SAS Information Map Studio, you run a test and notice that the cascading filter is not working properly. Instead of filtering on your desired variable – it returns everything. Eeek … how could this happen to a programming deity such as yourself? Let’s find out …...
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In the United States today is the scariest day of the year – All Hallows Eve. Tonight school children will run around dressed as monsters or Angry Birds demanding a treat from their neighbors. So here some treats for the SAS Business Intelligence users building charts and graphs. A few weeks ago I...
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In SAS Web Report Studio, I was trying to create a bar chart that showed the total payments by month. However, the Payment Date was the actual date the company received the payment and as a result the chart had a “play-by-play” action instead of overall results. Turns out that October 16th was a...
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Ok – I”ll just say it. I hate pie charts. If there are more than a few categories – then the user has to interpret the ranking order, it slows them down, and they may loose interest in the report that you so lovingly prepared. Maybe you say – “Tricia, add the numbers! Geez – you’re...
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