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I had seen a plot like this on the Census website, and I thought
it would be a good one to try to imitate using sas/graph (a
challenging chart, but do-able). I later found out that that
the census had used sas to create their chart - how ironic! :)
Basically, I sort my data by the average travel time, assign
a numeric rank, and then so a scatter plot. I use a user-defined
format (created from the data) so that the numeric ranks print
as the desired state name.
Also, on each marker, I annotate a line across it, and then
annotate a little tail at each end of the line (making it look
kinda like a spaceship fighter flying right at you ;)
The dot/marker represents the average time, and the annotated
bar represents the upper & lower bounds. I use gplot's html=
option to specify a variable containing the html title=
charttip/flyover-text, so you can mouse over the markers
and see detailed info about the values that marker represents.
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