R help - Jul 2012 - Help! Please recommend good books/resources on visualizing data and understanding multivariate relations...

Hi all,

Could you please help me?

I am looking for books/pointers/resources/tutorials on visualizing
complex/big data and on understanding multivariate relations in complicated
data.

More specifically, we have categorical variables and are interested in how
to visualize the categorical data and visualize data conditioned upon
categorical values.

Could anybody please give me some pointers?

Thanks a lot!

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On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Michael wrote:
> I am looking for books/pointers/resources/tutorials on visualizing
> complex/big data and on understanding multivariate relations in
> complicated data.
Michael,

   You need to become familiar with the works of Edward Tufte, the dean of
complex data visualization <www.edwardtufte.com/>.

   "Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of
political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He
is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the
field of data visualization." -- Wikipedia

   Happy reading!

Rich

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I found this [1] book interesting. About "big data" It  really depends
from
a number of things...  if can help, I know hdf5 work pretty Well with huge
dataset .

[1] http://www.ggobi.org/book/index.html
On Jul 3, 2012 7:14 PM, "Michael" <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Could you please help me?
>
> I am looking for books/pointers/resources/tutorials on visualizing
> complex/big data and on understanding multivariate relations in complicated
> data.
>
> More specifically, we have categorical variables and are interested in how
> to visualize the categorical data and visualize data conditioned upon
> categorical values.
>
> Could anybody please give me some pointers?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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>
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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One basic and very good one is 
Cleveland, W. S. (1985). The Elements of Graphing Data. Wadsworth, Inc.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

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> data and understanding multivariate relations...
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Could you please help me?
> 
> I am looking for books/pointers/resources/tutorials on visualizing
> complex/big data and on understanding multivariate relations in
> complicated
> data.
> 
> More specifically, we have categorical variables and are interested in
> how
> to visualize the categorical data and visualize data conditioned upon
> categorical values.
> 
> Could anybody please give me some pointers?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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I'm a fan of Ggobi--which works well with or without R--but I'm not sure
how
it handles enormous data sets. I second the Tufte recommendation, and add: 
Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis. 

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