Click here to see the SAS code.
Click here to see the example.

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See my blog for more information about this graph!

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I have recently re-written this example so that it now uses the
new 9.4 syntax (and must be run in SAS 9.4 or higher).
The advantages are that in SAS 9.4, the gif animation supports
smooth-edged (anti-aliased) graphics, and I can also use html
mouse-over text and drilldown directly (without 'faking it' by
running 2 separate SAS jobs).

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This SAS/Graph version shows that SAS can actually *do* things that were 
considered "science fiction" in the past :)

This is a SAS/Graph version of the sick bay Medical Dashboard from 
the old/original Star Trek TV series.

Here are a few pictures of the original:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/retroweb/3826123897/
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/forum/topics/21000/21794_1255201118756_full.jpg
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x02/charliex021.jpg

The original TV dashboard was actually a pretty good & well thought out design!
I tried to stick with the original design for the most part, but there were a 
few things that I thought were a natural 'fit' for a computerized version 
(that they would have probably done originally, if they were able) ... such as
changing the color of the arrow/pointer to denote which color range the data
value was in, and also printing the numeric value inside of the pointer.

The SAS/Graph version is actually data-driven, and it could hypothetically
be set up as a stored process, and made to refresh itself every second or so,
and read the latest/greatest data each time it is refreshed. 

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This dashboard was featured on the following website:

http://dashboardsbyexample.com/dashboard/star-trek-medical-dashboard/

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