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Real Estate Investment Analysis Dashboard - using SAS/GRAPH to track hot markets

Competive dashboarder Robert Allison sends us this great real estate investment analysis dashboard. (Bet you didn’t know there are people who build enterprise dashboards competitively, did you? See below.)

As Robert explains:

Ok - here’s one of my latest dashboard creations…

This is a dashboard that might be useful to someone in the Real Estate business (or maybe even banking, construction,
home furnishings, landscaping, and other business that might like to know where the “hot” real estate markets are
One noteworthy feature is the consistent use of colors throughout all the plots (for example “Melancholy Acres” is
blue in all the graphs). Also, I tried to organize & arrange the graphs so that the closely-related graphs are physically
close to one another. I chose boxplots to summarize the data, and where the data was available I used a triangular marker to show the “previous year’s median”.

You can try out the web version of this dashboard (with html charttips & drilldown) on the following samples page (it’s
the bottom/right sample). The actual sas code is provided there as well - feel free to re-use the code with your data!
I would be very interested in seeing what enhancements you will inevitably add
   http://robslink.com/SAS/dashboards/aaaindex.htm
This example was prepared for question/scenario #3 in the recent b-eye-network contest, and was created using SAS/Graph…

   http://www.b-eye-network.com/newsletters/data_viz_contest/data_viz.html

   http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/query_reporting/graph/index.html

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