Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing a Million

✍ Scribed by Antony Unwin, Martin Theus, Heike Hofmann

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Series: Statistics and Computing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows how to look at ways of visualizing large datasets, whether large in numbers of cases, or large in numbers of variables, or large in both. All ideas are illustrated with displays from analyses of real datasets and the importance of interpreting displays effectively is emphasized. Graphics should be drawn to convey information and the book includes many insightful examples. New approaches to graphics are needed to visualize the information in large datasets and most of the innovations described in this book are developments of standard graphics. The book is accessible to readers with some experience of drawing statistical graphics.

✦ Table of Contents

Statistics and Computing......Page 3
Graphics of Large Datasets......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 14
Part I Basics......Page 41
2 Statistical Graphics......Page 42
3 Scaling Up Graphics......Page 66
4 Interacting with Graphics......Page 84
Part II Applications......Page 113
5 Multivariate Categorical Data — Mosaic Plots......Page 114
6 Rotating Plots......Page 134
7 Multivariate Continuous Data — Parallel Coordinates......Page 151
8 Networks......Page 164
9 Trees......Page 183
10 Transactions......Page 209
11 Graphics of a Large Dataset......Page 233
References......Page 256
Authors......Page 267
Index......Page 271