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
• Data Visualization by Kieran Healy
• 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)
• 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
  • PDF file | LaTeX file produced by latex.describe in the Hmisc package
  • Examples of micro dot plots inside tables
• Amazing 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 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

• SVG annotation
• Applications making use of Google's GoogleVis API

Links to Other Sites

• http://www.datavisualisation-r.com
• R graph gallery
• Compilation
• Nature visualization blog
• http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/?goback=%2Egde_77616_member_115644192 Visualization blogs
• Periodic table of graphics
• Learn R (especially good for ggplot2 and advanced tweaking of graphics)
• Scimaps
• IBM's Many Eyes project
• A nice gallery from Protovis
• Information about slide rules from HP,
• Nomograms and Ron Doerfler's amazing blog about them
• More examples of nomograms from Project rho
• Examples of "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 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 home page and R examples
• R Graph Gallery
• R Graphics Gallery
• Examples containing side-by-side comparisons of ggplot2 and lattice graphics in R
• Paul Murrell's R Graphics site
• Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter
• Information Aesthetics
• MANET
• Mondrian
• Swivel
• Impressive highly interactive graphs from Gapminder
• asymptote
• ggplot
• Figures and code for Multivariate Data Visualization with R showing a large number of excellent lattice graphics examples
• Lattice and Other Graphics in R by JH Maindonald
• Looking Through Lattice by Martin Fink

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• graphscourse.pdf: Statistical Graphics course notes