Statistical Graphics Course

Short Course

• Graphics for Clinical Trials
• Statistical Graphics for Exploring Data, Presenting Information, and Understanding Statistical Models; Handouts
• Examples of color image plots for 3 variables
  • Relationship between diastolic and systolic blood pressure and the risk of disabling stroke from thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction
  • Relationship between coma score and daily urine output on median survival time for ICU patients with sepsis

Presentations and Handouts from Others

• Applying Human Factors Research to Statistical Graphics by John Rauser
• Guideing Principles for Effective Data Visualization by William Buchanan
• Why Scientists Need to be Better at Data Visualization by Betsy Mason
• http://socviz.co Data Visualization by Kieran Healy
• https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/StatGraphCourse/TEB.pdf Effective Displays of Data Need More Attention in Statistics Education by Thomas Bradstreet, Michael Nessly, and Thomas Short, Merck Research Labs and Indiana University of PA (Short)
• http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf Statistical Tables and Plots using S and LaTeX
• Schwarz' Tour of Bad Graphs
• How to get better at embracing unknowns by Jessica Hullman

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Mixing Text and Graphics

• Micro high resolution histograms inside tabular descriptive statistics using LaTeX picture environment
  • https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/StatGraphCourse/support.pdf PDF file | https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/StatGraphCourse/support.tex LaTeX file produced by latex.describe in the Hmisc package
  • Examples of http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf micro dot plots inside tables
• Amazing https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l42 example of a high-information graphic for systematic study overviews

Utilities for Converting Graphics File Formats

• The pstoedit program for Windows/NT, Linux, and UNIX. This program can convert postscript graphics files to a variety of other formats for editing and other purposes. The Windows version includes a Microsoft Office import plug-in for importing postscript files into documents.
• ImageMagick, an impressive program for converting between 68 graphics file formats.

Dealing with Background of an Image for Inclusion in a Slide Show

• Using http://www.tankedup-imaging.com/gradient.html Gimp to use color gradients
• Using the ImageMagick convert command to change the background in a jpg or png file
  • convert -transparent white  SourceFile DestFile where white is the color to change to transparent
• See other ImageMagick links: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_basics/ http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/

Interactive Visualization with R

• http://www.omegahat.org/SVGAnnotation SVG annotation
• Applications making use of http://www.yihui.name/en/index.php Google's GoogleVis API

Links to Other Sites

• http://www.datavisualisation-r.com
• http://www.r-graph-gallery.com R graph gallery
• http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/78844/a-gallery-of-charts-diagrams-and-plot-types Compilation
• http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/07/data-visualization-points-of-view.html Nature visualization blog
• http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/?goback=%2Egde_77616_member_115644192 Visualization blogs
• http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html Periodic table of graphics
• http://learnr.wordpress.com Learn R (especially good for ggplot2 and advanced tweaking of graphics)
• http://www.scimaps.org/maps/browse Scimaps
• IBM's http://www.many-eyes.com Many Eyes project
• A nice gallery from http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex Protovis
• Information about slide rules from HP,
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram Nomograms and Ron Doerfler's amazing http://www.myreckonings.com/wordpress blog about them
• More examples of nomograms from http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram Project rho
• Examples of http://www.insightful.com/products/graphlets/gallery/graphlet_gallery.asp "live" Java graphlets produced by S-Plus 6
• Michael Friendly's Gallery of Data Visualization - The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
• Gary Klass' How to Construct Bad Charts and Graphs
• Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/groups/sage SAGE system for automated graphics and explanation, including a rendition of Napoleon's march
• A famous example of bad design: The Palm Beach County Florida November 2000 Ballot
• Graphics for Clinical Trials by Jonathan Levine, Senior Scientist, Lincoln Technologies, Inc. (pdf, 420K, produced using CrossGraphs from Belmont Research or S-Plus)
• Sample graphical and tabular clinical trial report from the Statistical Data Analysis Center, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, U. Wisconsin-Madison.
• Graphical reporting in clinical trials and graphical exploration of clinical safety data from the Dept. of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University
• Bill Cleveland's Web Site, including S language scripts used in producing his book Visualizing Data
• Edward Tufte's http://www.edwardtufte.com home page and R examples
• R http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques Graph Gallery
• R http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R Graphics Gallery
• Examples containing side-by-side comparisons of http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/07/lattice-and-ggplot-graphics-side-by-side.html ggplot2 and lattice graphics in R
• Paul Murrell's http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html R Graphics site
• Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter
• http://infosthetics.com Information Aesthetics
• http://www.rosuda.org/MANET MANET
• http://www.rosuda.org/mondrian Mondrian
• http://swivel.com Swivel
• Impressive highly interactive graphs from http://graphs.gapminder.org/world Gapminder
• http://asymptote.sourceforge.net asymptote
• http://had.co.nz/ggplot ggplot
• http://lmdvr.r-forge.r-project.org Figures and code for Multivariate Data Visualization with R showing a large number of excellent lattice graphics examples
• http:http://maths-people.anu.edu.au/~johnm/r-book/2edn/xtras/rgraphics.pdf Lattice and Other Graphics in R by JH Maindonald
• http://www.baselr.org/presentations/MFink%20-%20Lattice.pdf Looking Through Lattice by Martin Fink

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• graphscourse.pdf: Statistical Graphics course notes