Statistical Graphics Course

Short Course

• Statistical Graphics for Exploring Data, Presenting Information, and Understanding Statistical Models; Handouts
• Discussion board
• 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

Handouts from Others

• 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
• Carl Schwarz's excellent site

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

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/#replace http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/channels

Interactive Visualization with R

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

Links to Other Sites

• IBM's Many Eyes project
• Information about slide rules from HP, Davie and Kessler, and Peter Fox (includes some good material about logarithms). For four examples of circular slide rules from William Thornton click here: 1 2 3 4
• Nomograms
• 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
• Paul Murrell's R Graphics site
• Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter
• Information Aesthetics
• MANET
• Mondrian
• Swivel
• Impressive highly interactive graphs from Gapminder
• ggplot

• graphscourse.pdf: Statistical Graphics course notes