The Grammar of GraphicsSpringer New York, 19.08.1999 - 408 Seiten This book was written for statisticians, computer scientists, geographers, research and applied scientists, and others interested in visualizing data. It presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systems. This foundation was designed for a distributed computing environment (Internet, Intranet, client-server), with special attention given to conserving computer code and system resources. While the tangible result of this work is a Java production graphics library (GPL) developed in collaboration with Dan Rope and Dan Carr, this book focuses on the deep structures involved in producing quantitative graphics from data. What are the rules that underly the production of pie charts, bar charts, scatterplots, function plots, maps, mosaics, radar charts? These rules are abstracted from the work of Bertin, Cleveland, Kosslyn, MacEachren, Pinker, Tufte, Tukey, Tobler, and other theorists of quantitative graphics. Those less interested in the theoretical and mathematical foundations can still get a sense of the richness and structure of the system by examining the numerous and often unique color graphics it can produce. Leland Wilkinson is Senior VP, SYSTAT Products at SPSS Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University. He wrote the SYSTAT statistical package and founded SYSTAT Inc. in 1984. Wilkinson joined SPSS in a 1994 acquisition and now works on research and development of graphical applications for data mining and statistics. He is a Fellow of the ASA and an Associate Editor of The American Statistician. In addition to journal articles and theoriginal SYSTAT computer program and manuals, Wilkinson is the author (with Grant Blank and Chris Gruber) of Desktop Data Analysis with SYSTAT. |
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Introduction | 1 |
How to Make a Pie | 21 |
Data | 43 |
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aesthetic attributes algebra algorithms axes axis bar chart bar graphic Bertin Birth Rate blend box plot Brain Weight categorical categorical variable Chapter Cleveland color column conformal mappings contours COORD coordinate system coordinate transformations create crossing dataset defined density dimensions display distribution domain dot plot elements facet Female Life Expectancy Figure FRAME geometric glyph graphics system graphing function GUIDE histobar histogram horizontal interval label legends linear matrix measure Minard minimum spanning tree MOLAP nesting numbers objects operators parallel coordinates parameter path perception plane point cloud point graphic polar coordinates position problem produce projection range real numbers rectangular regression relations represent rotation scale scatterplot Sepal shape shows an example smoother smoothing space specification statistical graphics string structure subset surface symbols SYSTAT Table tick marks tile tion TRANS tree tuples variable vertical visual Voronoi tessellation Wilkinson zero