Friday, December 12, 2008


This is a similarity matrix which shows how similar a group's signatures are. The higher the score on the matrix, the more similar, the lower the score, the less similarities. This matrix can be found at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471.2164/8/353/figure/F5?highres=y


This is a stem and leaf plot which depicts the arm span of a group of students in centimeters. The plot allows an easy way to determine mode and median of a data set. This can be found at http://www.europa.com/~paulg/mathmodels/datacenters.html


This is a box plot which illustrates a data range for a given item. This box plot shows the energy efficiency of four machines. It can be found at http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898.handbook/eda/section3/boxplot.htm


This is a histogram which uses bars to depict frequencies of data. This histogram can be found at http://www.xfy.com/manual/dev/developer/1.4/spec/spec_chart.html


This is a parallel coordinate graph which allows visualization of multiple data sets using geometry. This graph compares four characteristics of flowers from the Iris family. It can be founs at http://home.comcast.net/%7Epeh2.hoffman/tablevizx.pdf



This is a triangular plot which allows three variables to be considered. This plot shows the ancestry of particular ethnic groups and can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Admixture_triangle_plot.svg


This is a windrose which shows direction, frequency, and in this case, speed of wind in a particular location. The longer the spokes, the more frequently the wind blows from the correlating direction on a compass. This windrose can be found at http://lion.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/wsn_ornl.html