Lesson 6

Visualising and Analysing Multivariate Data

What will you learn from this lesson?

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• Sensing and analyzing high-dimensional continuous data
• Sensing and analyzing high-dimensional categorical data
• Sensing both categorical and continuous high-dimensional data
• High-dimensional data analysis best practices

When the variables are both continuous and categorical

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• Trellis

Trellis plot

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• Also know as multiple plots

Trellis plot - JMP methods

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Trellis plot - application 1

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Trellis plot - application 2

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When there are three continuous variables

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Visualising and Analysing Three Continuous Variables: Ternary Plot

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ggtern: ternary diagrams in R

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Ternary Plot codes in D3.js

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When all the variables are continuous

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Scatterplot Matrix

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• This is a bi-variate plot and not a multiple variables plot

Glyphs

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• Also known as radar chart, star chart and spider chart

Glyphs - Multiple plots

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Glyphs in D3.js

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Glyphs in D3.js

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Parallel Coordinates

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Parallel Coordinates - highlighting

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Parallel Coordinates - colour highlighting

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Parallel Coordinates - filtering

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Parallel Coordinates - alternative design

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Parallel Coordinates in d3.js

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Parallel Coordinates in d3.js: fisheye

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Parallel Coordinates in d3.js: Shuffled Rendering

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Parallel Coordinates in d3.js: application

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Cell-based Method: Heatmap

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Heatmap: Sorting

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Heatmap + Dendrogram

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d3heatmap: R + D3.js

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Table-based Methods

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• Table Lens
• Tableplots

Table Lens

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Table Lens in D3.js

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Tableplots

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Visualising and Analysing Categorical Data

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• Mosaic plot
• Parallel set

When the variables are all categorical

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Mosaic plot: two variables

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Mosaic plot: three variables

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Parallel Sets: Analysing the relationships

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Parallel Sets: Application I

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Parallel Sets: Application II

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Parallel Sets: Application III

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