Statistics 250, Winter '07

  • Potential Topics
  • HOMEWORK 1
  • URIs for searching for code
  • getrusage package
  • Paper to read on Parallel Computing in R with the snow package.
    More information.
  • Notes on C
  • Important!

  • Reading
  • Ross Ihaka's class notes for a visualization class
    Read lectures 8-14 inclusive and find auxiliary information on the Web or in articles or books. I would like references to material and a summary of what you have learned.
  • You are to look for and read information on perception and cognition. Also read about "information visualization". I'll be asking about this when we meet again a week from Wednesday.
  • Find an example of a table in a journal and transform it into a plot.
    Send me your result and reference to the table.
  • The Science of Scientific Writing
  • Lattice
  • Notes and short papers on Lattice
  • R Graphics Gallery
    Examples of a lot of different graphics created with R.
  • Examples of lattice plots and controls
    wit the rectangle color grid for the legend and several illustrations of different arguments for xyplot and bwplot.
    Alternative version
  • Data for these examples
    temperature.rda (containing temperature) & NASA.rda (containing nasa)
  • Scagnostics paper by Wilkinson et al.
    Read for Monday.
  • Look at the RColorBrewer package in R and other color palettes and also Cindy Brewer's site.
  • clusterMApply() function
  • Michael Friendly's "Visualizing Categorical Data"
  • Michael Friendly's Graphics Gallery (good, bad, ugly!)
  • Wednesday's "Internet" (or lack thereof) lecture

  • Modern graphics and media.
  • Hans Rosling's 20 minute TED talk
  • Gap Minder Software and demos
    Play with this software and explore the different controls and the data they provide. How would we create these in R, Matlab, etc.?
  • Google Earth
    Hurrican Katrina animation from the page http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/cs/blogs/brian_flood/archive/2006/09/22/Google-Earth-Time-Sample-_2D00_-Animation-Part-2.aspx
  • IBM's Many Eyes social data visualization site.
    Play with some of the controls here.
  • swivel social visualization site.
  • State of the Union example
    This is created using the general software from Processing.org. This is a very rich environment that we could exploit.
  • RGtk
    Note the software is now RGtk2 and cairoDevice which are available from CRAN..
  • CGIwithR for HTML forms and CGI scripts using R.
  • Choosing colors for graphics
    Ihaka's DSC 2003 paper. Zeileis and Hornik's DSC 2007 paper.

  • Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
    Last modified: Thu Nov 9 15:32:04 PST 2006