Graphics of Large Datasets

Download or read book Graphics of Large Datasets written by Antony Unwin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to look at ways of visualizing large datasets, whether large in numbers of cases, or large in numbers of variables, or large in both. All ideas are illustrated with displays from analyses of real datasets and the importance of interpreting displays effectively is emphasized. Graphics should be drawn to convey information and the book includes many insightful examples. New approaches to graphics are needed to visualize the information in large datasets and most of the innovations described in this book are developments of standard graphics. The book is accessible to readers with some experience of drawing statistical graphics.