Mapping the 50 US hospitals with the highest price markups
▻http://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2015/06/11/mapping-the-50-us-hospitals-with-the-highest-price-markups
I first tried plotting the 50 hospitals as markers on a US map, but some of them were clustered so tightly that it was difficult to see them all clearly. So I decided to plot them on state maps instead. There were so many states, the user would have had to spend a lot of time scrolling through them all, looking for the state that interested them. So I set up a graphical user interface (GUI) - and by ’graphical’ I mean a top-level US map, where they can click on the state of interest to drill down. Here’s a snapshot of my GUI US map (you can click it to see the actual interactive map):