Click here to see the SAS code. Click here to see the example. 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, and then so a scatter plot. I use a 'trick' y-axis (axis1) and suppress the normal labels, and then I annotate my own labels with the state names. Also, on each marker, I annotate a line across it, and then annotate a little bar 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. Back to Samples Index