Friday, April 23, 2010

Cartographic Animation

Cartographic animations allow spatial visualization. It is used for the depiction of change over time. For example, we watch radar when checking a hurricane status and the animation shows how the hurricane will move.
http://www.mthurricane.com/Hurricane_Charley.htm

Starplot

A star plot is a graphic representation of the relative behavior of all variables in a multivariate data set
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/starplot.htm

Correlation matrix

A correlation matrix describes correlation among sets of variables. It is always symmetric because the correlation between Xi and Xj are the same as the correlation between Xj and Xi http://yin.che.wisc.edu/images.htm

Similarity Matrix

A similarity matrix is a matrix made of scores that show similarity between two data points. http://tomcat.esat.kuleuven.be/txtgate/tutorial.jsp

Stem and Leaf

Stem and leaf plots show the frequency with which certain classes of values occur. These values in turn can be used to create a histogram.
http://www.uow.edu.au/student/attributes/statlit/modules/module2/shapedist.html

Box Plot

A boxplot compares sets of data through a 5 point summary.
http://www.lohninger.com/boxplot.html

Histograms

A histogram is a table that displays info as adjacent rectangles. Each rectangle is shown over an interval, with an area equal to the frequency of the interval. The height is equal to the frequency density of that interval.
http://cs.anu.edu.au/escience/lecture/cg/CGIntroduction/printCG.en.html