Visualizing Data: Challenges to Presentation of Quality Graphics—and Solutions Naomi Robbins, a consultant and seminar leader who specializes in the graphical display of data, offers training on the effective presentation of data. She also reviews documents and presentations for clients. She is the author of Creating More Effective Graphs. Three common challenges statisticians and others face when preparing data for presentation include poor options and defaults in many software packages used for creating graphs, managers and colleagues who are socialized to expect figures that attract attention, and poor instructions from conference organizers. This article addresses each of these challenges and offers some tips for dealing with them. Poor Options and Defaults in Many Software Packages Many software programs for drawing charts and graphs offer defaults and options that are full of fancy embellishments that detract from the clear and accurate communication of data. The pseudo three-dimensional problem is easily solved by using a two-dimensional bar chart. Summary
The R Project for Statistical Computing Interactive graphics for data analysis: principles and examples - Martin Theus, Simon Urbanek Statistics with R Warning Here are the notes I took while discovering and using the statistical environment R. However, I do not claim any competence in the domains I tackle: I hope you will find those notes useful, but keep you eyes open -- errors and bad advice are still lurking in those pages... Should you want it, I have prepared a quick-and-dirty PDF version of this document. The old, French version is still available, in HTML or as a single file. You may also want all the code in this document. 1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
Curriculum Vitae (mis à jour le: 25/01/2011) Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux Né le 27 mars 1973 à Paris. Marié avec deux enfants. Nationalités : canadienne, française, suisse. Séjours (courts) dans d’autres laboratoires de recherche universitaire Conférences invitées1 Sydney, Australie (2014). Mini-cours et tutoriels Invitation de chercheurs Bourses et subventions Distinction académique Fonctions électives Responsabilités administratives Université de Montréal, Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique Université Pierre Mendès France, Département STID de l’IUT2 Arbitrage d’articles de revues Bernoulli, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Cognitive Computation, Computational Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Frontiers Neuroscience, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of Statistical Software, Mathematical Reviews, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Proceedings, Statistical Methodology. Comités éditoriaux Thèmes de recherche privilégiés 2014?
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Graphics, Traditional - r4stats.com R for SAS and SPSS Users and R for Stata Users contain examples for advanced users. Paul Murrell's book R Graphics (right) also offers excellent coverage of traditional graphics in great detail. Bar Plots Bar Plots of Counts If you have pre-summarized data, it is easy to get a bar plot of it. > barplot( c(40,60) ) This bar plot summarizes the variable q4. > plot( as.factor(q4) )> barplot( table(q4) ) This plots a factor, gender. > plot(gender) # or...> barplot( table(gender) ) Using traditional graphics functions you can turn a graph on its side by adding the argument, horiz = TRUE. > plot(workshop, horiz=TRUE) # or...> barplot( table(workshop), horiz=TRUE) A stacked bar plot is like a rectangular pie chart. > barplot( as.matrix( table(workshop) ), beside = FALSE) You can visualize frequencies on two factors by using plot(). > plot(workshop, gender, xlab="", ylab="") You can also do this plot using the mosaicplot() function. > mosaicplot( table(workshop, gender), main = "" ) Pie Charts Dot Charts