Pretty hard to get any attention while Steve is presenting the iPad , but nonetheless I like to point to the new version 1.1 of Mondrian. Here are the most important new features: Load data directly from R workspace files New color schemes Compatible with Java 6 on all platforms Very many bug fixes and [...]
Robert has released the wonderful parallel sets tool in version 2. It is JAVA, it is interactive – so what do we want more! As I spent some time thinking about the display of categorical data and creating tools for their visualization myself, I thought it would be a great idea to compare the parallel [...]
As we are used from UNIX. there is not one single suitable solution to solve a problem, but usually a few different ways to do “the same”. Depending on what commands we know (best), we will chose the one or the other solution. Only the absolute expert will be able to choose the most efficient [...]
Everything started with the article in the NYT talking about R – and of course – did mention SAS. Andrew Gelman picked up the article and posted his take on the matter. Maybe it are sentences like Andrew’s “And it’s good to hear that SAS is in trouble” and Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing [...]
Yes, it has been a while since I posted a “Good & Bad” … But as I saw this “novel decision tree plot” on an advertisement by C&H for Paul’s R Graphics book, I got inspired again … Now here is “The Bad”: Let me explain, what went wrong with the R graphics: A tree, [...]
Graphics of Large Datasets:
Visualizing a Million
Numbers Rule Your World:
The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics
on Everything You Do
Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis:
With R and GGobi (Use R)