Visualization
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Excel Charts Blog posted a video tutorial of how to create a circumplex or rose or dougnut chart in Excel. Apparently this type of chart is very popular in the consulting industry, hence the “Consultants’ Chart”. It is very easy to make this chart in Excel 2010, but it involves countless number of clicks and formulas to format both the source data and the chart itself. Waterfall charts are often used for analytical purposes in the business setting to show the effect of sequentially introduced negative and/or positive values. Sometimes waterfall charts are also referred to as cascade charts. In the next few paragraphs I will show how to plot a waterfall chart using ggplot2 .
Learning R
Ggplot2 Notes | Sharp Statistics
During the time I have used R the base graphics package has met my needs, although I have been aware of ggplot2 but found learning it a bit of a struggle so have pretty much ignored it until now. Most ggplot2 articles start off using the qplot function or only use qplot. I find this confusing as qplot is a wrapper around the more versatile ggplot command.
StatPlanet Map Maker – Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software
StatPlanet Plus has support for large data sets, embedding a company logo, loading in ESRI shapefile maps, exporting graphs and maps, and many more features.The art of data visualization
Catherine from visualizingeconomics.com has written an interesting article about the roles in data visualization. The posts that your reading right now are my thoughts about the diagram she created and how I would alter the stages in the process. I recommend reading her article first, as my answer is based on her thoughts.
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