Psychology 859:
Seminar in Quantitative Psychology:
Statistical Graphics for Data Analysis and Presentation
Time, Place: 9:00-11:30
Mondays, 347 Davie
Instructor: David
Thissen
Some Topics and Readings:
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Topic |
Some Readings |
Some More Readings |
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Background & Overview Video: Wainer,
H. How to
display data effectively. American Demographics Institute, Washington,
DC, September 15, 1988. (This was videotaped by PBS and broadcast in May
1989.) Slides:
Completely Meaningless Points. |
Wainer, H. (1984). How to Display Data Badly. The American
Statistician, 38, 137-147. Wainer, H. (1980). Making newspaper
graphs fit to print. In P. A. Kolers, M. E. Wrolstad, & H. Bouma
(Eds.), Processing
of visible language 2 (pp. 125-142). New York: Plenum. Wainer, H. (1990b). Measuring graphicacy. Chance, 3, 52 & 58. Wainer, H. (1991). Elegance, Grace,
Impact and Graphical Displays. Chance, 4, 45-47. Wainer, H. (1998). There they
go again. Research Report RR-98-13. Princeton, NJ: Educational
Testing Service. Wainer, H. (2007). Improving
data displays: Ours and the mediaÕs. Chance, 20, 8-15. Wainer, H. (2008). Improving
graphic displays by controlling creativity (with discussion). Chance, 21, 46-53. Wainer, H. (2010). Commentary on the Graphic
Displays in the 2008 National Healthcare Quality Report and State Snapshots.
Chance, 23, 47-53. |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 1: Telling stories with data, and Chapter 9:
Designing with a purpose. [off-campus
link] Wainer,
H., & Thissen, D. (1981). Graphical data
analysis. In M. R. Rosenzweig & L. W. Porter (Eds.), Annual Review
of Psychology (pp. 191-241). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews. A revision
reprinted in G. Keren & C. Lewis (Eds.) (1992) Methodological and quantitative issues in
the analysis of psychological data. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Wainer, H.
& Velleman, P. F. (2001). Statistical
graphics: Mapping the pathways of science. Annual Review of Psychology, 52,
305-335. Wilkinson, L. (1992). Graphical
displays. Statistical
Methods in Medical Research, 1, 3-25. Media Matters for America: Worst chart I've seen all day. Media Matters for America: Today In Dishonest Fox News Charts. |
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Material that may be of interest at any time |
Websites that may be of interest: Nathan YauÕs Flowing Data with such entries as Getting
Started with Charts in R. and his Visualize This book site. Significance
magazineÕs February 2013 article on Nathan Yau. Michael FriendlyÕs Datavis.ca with such entries as Gallery
of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics and Milestones in the
History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization. William RevelleÕs The Personality Project:
Using R in Psychological Research: A simple guide to an elegant package. RevolutionsÕs 10
tips for making your R graphics look their best. ASA Section on Statistical Computing
& Statistical Graphics: Video
Library. Infovis: 1100+ examples
of information visualization. BuzzFeed: 30
Charts You Didn't Know You Needed. Entire books that may be of some use:* Yau, N. (2011). Visualize
this: The FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics.
Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing, Inc. [Note: Chapters 2 (Handling data), 3
(Choosing tools to visualize data), and 4 (Visualizing patterns over time)
may serve as background and reference material throughout the course; the
other chapters are associated with topics.] [off-campus
link] Chambers, J.M.,
Cleveland, W.S., Kleiner, B., & Tukey, P.A. (1983). Graphical
methods for data analysis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Cleveland,
W.S. (1985). The
elements of graphing data. Monterey, CA: Wadsworth. Cleveland, W.S., &
McGill, M.E. (1988). Dynamic
graphics for statistics. Tufte,
E. R. (1983). The
visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Tufte,
E. R. (1990). Envisioning
information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics. Tufte, E. R. (1997).
Visual
explanations. Cheshire, CT: Graphics. Tufte, E. R. (2006).
Beautiful
Evidence. Graphics Press. Cheshire, CT. Wainer, H. (1997). Visual
revelations: Graphical tales of fate and deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to
Ross Perot. New York:
Copernicus. Wainer, H. (2005). Graphic
Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. [off-campus
link] Wainer, H. (2009). Picturing
the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate and Control Uncertainty
through Graphical Display. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Wilkinson,
L. (1999). The grammar of
graphics. New York, NY: Springer. [off-campus
link] Young, F. W., Valero-Mora,
P., and Friendly, M. (2006). Visual
Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics. New York:
Wiley. *Some full-length books are available electronically
through the UNC Library; others are not. For those that are not, links from
the Author(s)-date bits are to the UNC library catalog entries, and links
from the titles are to the booksÕ pages at Amazon.com. |
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Tables |
Ehrenberg, A. S. C. ( 1977). Rudiments of
numeracy. Journal
of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 140, 277- 297. Wainer, H. ( 1993). Tabular
presentation. Chance, 6, 52-56. Wainer, H. (1998). Rounding tables. Chance, 11, 46-50. Wainer, H. (2009). A good table can beat a bad
graph. Chance,
22,
55-57. Feinberg, R.A., &
Wainer, H. (2011). Extracting Sunbeams
from Cucumbers. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 1-18. Wainer, H. (1997). Improving tabular displays: With NAEP tables as
examples and inspirations. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics,
21,
1-32. Chapter 5, Displaying Results.
From American Psychological Association. (2010). The Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. |
Gelman, A.
(2011). Tables as graphs: The Ramanujan
principle. Significance,
8, 183. Gelman, A.
(2011) Why tables are really
much better than graphs. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 3-7. Wainer, H.
(2011). Comment. Journal of
Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 8-15. Friendly,
M., & Kwan, E. (2011) Comment. Journal of
Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 17-27. Gelman, A.
(2011) Rejoinder. Journal of
Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 36-40. Kwan, E., Lu, I. R. R., and Friendly, M. (2009). Tableplot: A New Tool for Assessing
Precise Predictions. Zeitschrift fŸr Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 217, 38-48. |
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Tallys, Transitions and Pixels Slides:
Tables. Slides:
Tally Marks. Slides:
Bachi's Graphical Rational Patterns. Slides:
Inside Out Plots. Slides:
Corrgrams. Slides:
Transitions. Slides:
Graphics File Formats. Video: YouTube: Plotting with the HP 7470a and HP
7475a. |
Tukey, J. W. (1972). Some graphic and
semigraphic displays. In W.S. Cleveland (Ed.), The collected Works of John W. Tukey:
Graphics 1965-1985 (pp. 39-62). Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth &
Brooks/Cole. [Also in T. A. Bancroft (Ed.), Statistical papers in honor of George W.
Snedecor (pp. 37-62). Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.] Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory data analysis (Chapters 1-2).
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Wikipedia: Tally Marks. Hsieh, Hui-Kuang (1981). Chinese tally mark, The American Statistician, 35, p. 174 Bureau of the Census, U.S.
Department of Commerce. (1978). Graphic
presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics
Section, Session on Graphical Methods for Presenting
Data (Technical Report No. 43). Washington, D. C.: Author. Wainer, H. & Ramsay, J.
(2010). Inside out plots. Chance, 23, 57-62. |
Gelman, A., Pasarica, C.,
and Dodhia, R. (2002). LetÕs practice what we
preach: turning tables into graphs. The American Statistician, 56,
121-130. M. Friendly. (2002). Corrgrams: Exploratory displays for correlation
matrices. The
American Statistician, 56, 316-324. Murdoch, D.J., & Chow,
E.D. (1996). A graphical display of large
correlation matrices. The American Statistician, 50, 178-180. R
documentation: Package "corrplot" Wainer,
H. & Vasilescu, D. (2005). Old Mother
Hubbard and the United Nations: An adventure in exploratory data analysis
(with discussion). Chance, 18, 38-45, Wainer,
H., & Thissen, D. (1988). Plotting
in the modern world: Statistics packages and good graphics. Chance, 1, 10-20. Hayes, B. (2012). Pixels or perish. American
Scientist, 100,
106-111. [The interactive
version on the web includes dynamic graphics.] |
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History Slides:
A Bit of History. Video: Computer Graphics in
Statistics: The Last 30 Years in Brief. Dianne Cook. Iowa State University (1995). Slides:
GraphicalMethods-Fienberg. |
Friendly,
M. (2007). A brief history of data
visualization. In C. Chen, W. HŠrdle, & A. Unwin (Eds.), Handbook of
computational statistics: Data visualization (pp. 1-34). Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag. Beniger,
J. R., and Robyn, D. L. (1978). Quantitative
graphics in Statistics: A brief history. The American Statistician, 32 1-11. Fienberg,
S.E. 1979. Graphical methods in statistics. The American
Statistician 33, 165-78. Spence,
I. & and Wainer, H. (2005). William
Playfair and his graphical inventions: An excerpt from the introduction to
the republication of his Atlas and statistical breviary. The American Statistician, 59,
224-229. |
Mosteller, F. & Tukey, J. W. (1949). The uses and usefulness of binomial
probability paper. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 44,
174-212. Schmid, C.F. (1986). Whatever
has happened to the semilogarithmic chart? The American Statistician, 40,
238-244. Brinton, W.C. (1914) Graphic
methods for presenting facts. New York, NY: The Engineering Magazine Co. |
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Categorical Data Slides:
Categorical Data Display. Video: U.Md. Human-Computer
Interaction Lab 1992 Video Reports (for Treemaps). |
Wainer, H. (1991b). Humble pie. Chance, 4, 52-53. Wainer, H. ( 1995a). A rose by
another name. Chance, 8, 46-51. Wainer, H. (2010). Pies, spies, roses, lines,
and symmetries. Chance, 23, 58-61. Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 5: Visualizing proportions. [off-campus
link] Treemaps for
space-constrained visualization of hierarchies. R documentation: Package ÔtreemapÕ. R documentation: Package ÔportfolioÕ. FlowingData:
An
Easy Way to Make a Treemap. |
Friendly, M. (1992). Mosaic displays for loglinear
models. American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics
Section, 61-68. Friendly, M. (1994). Mosaic
displays for n-way
contingency tables. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 190-200 Friendly, M. (1999). Visualizing categorical
data. In M. Sirken, D. Herrmann, S. Schechter, N. Schwarz, J. Tanur, and
R. Tourangeau (Eds.), Cognition and survey research (pp. 319-348). New York: Wiley. Friendly, M. (1999). Extending
mosaic displays: marginal, conditional, and partial views of categorical data.
Journal of
Computational and Graphical Statistics, 8, 373-395. R
documentation: Package ÔvcdÕ. |
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Distributional Display Slides:
Distributional Display. |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 6: Visualizing relationships (pp. 200-213). [off-campus
link] McGill, R., Larsen, W. A., & Tukey, J. W. (1978). Variations of box plots.
The American
Statistician, 32, 12-16. Benjamini, Y. (1988). Opening
the box of a boxplot. The American Statistician, 42, 257-262. Lee, J. J., & Z. N. Tu (1997). A versatile one-dimensional distribution plot:
The BLiP plot. The American Statistician, 51, 353-358. Hintze, J. L. & Nelson, R. D. (1998). Violin plots: A box plot-density
trace synergism. The American Statistician, 52, 181-184. Kampstra, P. (2008) Beanplot: A
boxplot alternative for visual comparison of distributions. Journal of
Statistical Software, Code Snippets, 28(1), 1-9. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v28/c01/ FlowingData: How
to Visualize and Compare Distributions. Langford,
E. (2006). Quartiles
in elementary statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 14(3). |
Wilk, M. B. and
Gnanadesikan, R. (1968). Probability
plotting methods for the analysis of data. Biometrika, 55, 1-17 R-Bloggers: The Many Uses of
Q-Q Plots. R-Bloggers: R
Tutorial Series: Graphic Analysis of Regression Assumptions. Wilkinson, L. (1982). Fuzzygrams.
Presented at Harvard Computer Graphics Week. Cambridge, MA. Wilkinson, L. (1982). Fuzzygrams. Unpublished ms. SYSTAT
documentation: Density
Charts (Wilkinson). Howard Wainer (1996). Depicting error. The American Statistician, 50,
101-111. Almond, R. G., Lewis, C.,
Tukey, J. W., & Yan, D. (2000). Displays
for comparing a given state to many others. The American Statistician, 54, 89-93. |
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Enhanced 2D Displays Slides:
Enhanced Scatterplots. Video: Dynamic Displays of Data
Richard A. Becker and Robert McGill. AT&T Bell Laboratories
(1985). |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 6: Visualizing relationships (pp. 192-200). [off-campus
link] Devlin, S. J., Gnanadesikan, R., and
Kettenring, J. R. (1975). Robust
estimation and outlier detection with correlation coefficient. Biometrika,
62,
531-545. Thissen, D., Baker, L. & Wainer, H. (1981). Influence-enhanced
scatterplots.
Psychological
Bulletin, 90,
179-184. Cleveland, W.S. & Kleiner, B.
(1975). A Graphical Technique for
Enhancing Scatterplots with Moving Statistics. Technometrics, 17, 447-454. Cleveland, W. S. (1979). Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing
scatterplots. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74,
829-836. Cleveland, W. S. & Devlin, S. J.
(1988). Locally weighted regression: An
approach to regression analysis by local fitting. Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 83, 596-610. R
documentation: R Package shape. |
Wainer, H. (1991a). Double Y-axis graphs. Chance, 4, 50-51. Wainer, H. (1996). Scaling the heights (and widths).
Chance, 9, 43-49. Wainer, H. & Koretz, D. (2003). A political statistic. Chance, 16, 45-47. Ellison, A. M. 1993. Exploratory data analysis and graphic display.
In S. M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch (Eds.) Design and analysis of ecological experiments
(pp. 14-45). New York, NY: Chapman & Hall. Thissen, D. & Wainer, H. (1990). Confidence envelopes for item response theory. Journal of
Educational Statistics, 15, 113-128. FlowingData: Color
names plotted against gender. Data Pointed: His
and hers colors. |
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Multivariate Display: Small Multiples Slides:
Small Multiples. Video: Brushing a Scatter Plot Matrix
Richard A. Becker and Robert McGill. AT&T Bell Laboratories
(1985). Wainer,
H. Pictures
at an Exhibition. A.P.A. Messick Award Address, March 12, 2009. |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 6: Visualizing relationships
(pp. 180-192; 213-226). [off-campus
link] Wainer,
H. (2009). A centenary
celebration for Will Burtin: A pioneer of scientific visualization. Chance, 22, 51-55. Wainer,
H. & Larsen, M. (2009). Pictures
at an exhibition. Chance, 22, 46-53. |
Tukey,
J. W., & Tukey, P.A. (1988). Some
Graphics for Studying Four-Dimensional Data. In W.S. Cleveland (Ed.), The collected
Works of John W. Tukey: Graphics 1965-1985 (pp. 171-188). Pacific Grove,
CA: Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. [Also in Barnett, V. (Ed.) (1981). Interpreting
multivariate data. Chichester, UK: Wiley] R-bloggers: More on
Exploring Correlations in R. |
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Multivariate Display: Glyphs Slides:
Multivariate Display: Glyphs, etc. |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 7: Spotting differences (pp. 228-258). [off-campus
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D. F. ( 1972). Plots of
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Association, 76, 260-268. Thissen,
D., & Wainer, H. ( 1986). XTREE: A multivariate graphical icon
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H. (1983). On multivariate
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documentation: Andrews
curves. R
documentation: Chernoff
faces. |
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Multivariate Display: Rotating Scatterplots Slides:
Rotating Scatterplots. Video: Real-time Rotation
Jih-Jie Chang. AT&T Bell Laboratories (1970). Prim-9
J.W. Tukey,
J.H. Friedman and M.A. Fisherkeller. Stanford Linear Accelerator (1973). Brushing and Rotation on an
Iris
Richard A. Becker, William S. Cleveland
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Structure with VISUALS/Pxpl
Forrest W.
Young & Penny Rheingans. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(1990). |
Fisherkeller, M. A., Friedman, J H.,
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display and analysis system. SLAC-Pub-1408. Stanford, CA: Stanford Linear
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(1981). Graphics for the multivariate
two-sample problem (with discussion). Journal of the American Statistical Association,
76, 277-287. |
Marsaglia, G. (1968). Random numbers fall mainly in the
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on Computers, 23, 881-890.] |
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Multidimensional Scaling Slides:
Multidimensional Scaling. Video: Multidimensional Scaling
J.B. Kruskal. AT&T Bell Laboratories (1962) |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 7: Spotting differences (pp. 258-264). [off-campus
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CA: Sage Publications. Young, F.W. (1985). Multidimensional
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Groenen, P.J.F. & Van de Velden,
M. (2005). Multidimensional Scaling.
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Econometric Institute Report EI 2004-15). A beautifulWWW: An
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Visualization of the Netflix Prize Dataset. |
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Path Analysis and Path Diagrams Slides:
Path Diagrams. |
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in determining the piebald pattern of guinea-pigs.
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Maps Slides:
Maps. |
Yau, N.
(2011). Visualize
this ... Chapter 8: Visualizing spatial relationships. [off-campus
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Wainer, H. (2012). Moral
Statistics and the Thematic Maps of Joseph Fletcher. Chance, 25, 43-46. baysianbiologist: Walmart
invasion. |
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Experimental Evaluation Slides:
Experimental Studies. |
Cleveland, W.S. & McGill, R.
(1985). Graphical
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H. & Thissen, D. (1979). On the robustness of
a class of naive estimators. Applied Psychological Measurement, 3, 543-551. |
Wainer, H. (1974). The suspended
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Statistician, 34, 81-93. |
Requirements, grading, and stuff: There will be no tests. Opportunities to actively
participate in the seminar will be discussed in class.