| LeRoy Bessler |
Scatter plots and bar charts are part of the package, but what sets this paper apart are ways to use PROC SGMAP and
ODS HTML5 that have never been seen before. Inherent practical difficulties in using choropleth maps (i.e., maps that
have countries color-coded based on response value: population, case count, mortality count, case rate, or mortality
count) have been overcome.
To programmatically color the country areas is NOT a problem. Seeing the color coding
CAN BE. Even FINDING a tiny country on a map is always a challenge. The range of the world's land areas includes 2
sq. mi. (0.8 sq. km.) for Monaco. On a web-enabled map, if you cannot find a country, you cannot raise its mouseover
text. In this presentation, you will see the solution.
My actually usable web-enabled atlas for COVID-19 includes maps
for the world and for each continent except Antarctica. To make the broad expanse of Asia more easily explorable, there
are five regional maps. There are also maps for the Central America mainland and the Caribbean Islands.
The project
uses COVID-19 data for 2020 to 2023. Relationships between the five response variables and fifteen other data elements
are explored. Another question of interest to be investigated is to what extent the COVID-19 severity in one country can
"radiate" to countries that share its boundary. |