Click here to see the SAS code. Click here to see the example. This is a sas imitation of a plot from p. 185 of Stephen Few's book "Show me the Numbers". I used a few tricks to get this graph exactly like Stephen's... I used a numeric variable for the month, to get them in the desired order (otherwise they would have been ordered alphabetic, or numeric ascending/descending). I then applied a user-defined format to make the numeric values print as the month abbreviation. I made the horizontal axis white ('invisible') and the response axis gray. I then made the text values on the axes black. I suppressed the minor tickmarks on the response axis, and made the major tickmarks slightly longer than usual. I added a 2nd line to the response axis label -- it contains a blank value with a height of 2pct. I used this blank just to add a little extra space. Back to Samples Index