GoGoGraph Premium

Only available before March 15th, 2025 and after January 15th, 2026

GoGoGraph Premium - Mastering the 7 Steps to Customize Your SAS Graphs

GoGoGraph is a two-day workshop that teaches how to customize graphs generated with proc sgplot, which can then be easily transposed to proc template.

Workshop

During this workshop, SAS biostatisticians and programmers put into practice the 7 steps of customization.

Step #1 – Creating a first version of your graph. Saving the graph as image.
Step #2 – Creating your own style template to customize your graph.
Step #3 – Adding some text, symbol, images near the bars. Customizing the bars (fill color, fill transparency; pattern type, pattern color; outline color, thickness and pattern type).
Step #4 – Customizing the axis.
Step #5 – Using the axis tables to add statistics near the graph.
Step #6 – Customizing the legend.
Step #7 – Using annotations (sganno=).

Onboarding

The workshop is preceded by onboarding activities :

1 onboarding session to ensure that all logistical aspects are in place on the D-day (60 to 90 minutes, online)
5 exercises to ensure that the concepts used during the workshop are familiar to everyone, whatever their profile (MailLib, 1 week).

Online Onboarding session

During this session, you create the directories for the training, upload the files provided and adapt the paths in the SAS programs to your environment.
At the end of this onboarding session, you take a quiz after running an initial SAS program and creating their first graph. You discover the program sections in a fun and proactive way.

MailLib Exercise Details:

Dictionaries as alternative to proc contents
Deleting user specific global macro variables
Dealing with title style
Dealing with line breaks
Creating and using given formats.

Keep Learning after the Workshop

The workshop is followed by 20 exercises :

5 workshop revision exercises (MailLib, 1 week)
15 guided exercises to experiment with specific cases encountered during portfolio creation (MailLib, 3 weeks).

Resources

At the end of the workshop, participants leave with their certificate of attendance and :

Powerpoint: details of the 7 steps (30 to 40 slides per step, available online in PDF format)
Playground: short examples illustrating specific options (SAS programs)
Builder: access to snippet codes organized according to the 7 steps to build your graphics block by block (SAS programs)
Portfolio: programs of the 20 graphics (SAS programs).

FAQ

Online Workshop

An online workshop can be organized in place of the two-day face-to-face session. Plan on 8 sessions of 2 hours each for a group of 4 people.

Number of Participants

Face-to-Face Workshop

4 to 8 participants

Online Workshop

4 participants

Prerequisites

GoGoGraph Premium is designed for experienced SAS users i.e. both biostatistician and programmers.

You must have your own SAS licence. If you choose to use SAS® Ondemand and/or if you are new to SAS® Studio, you will have access to the resources “How to quickly get started with SAS® Studio” to get used to the main features needed to create folders, upload/dowload files, reset a session, and so on.