Sunday, April 26, 2009

Bivariate choropleth maps

http://www.geocities.com/stevejford/Africa_Choropleth.jpg

This map shows the life expectancy, land use, and gnp per capita of Africa. This map has managed to use three different variables and include them onto one map of Africa with colors and a pie chart.

Star plots

http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/graphiques/graph_63.png

A star plot is a way to produce different variables in a graph and keeping the graph two dimensional. This star plot includes 7 different variables from each type of automobile maker.

Correlation matrix


http://yin.che.wisc.edu/images/ProteinMatrix.jpg

A correlation matrix shows the similarities between two variables. The above graph shows the correlation for a protein cell at a certain stage.

Similarity matrix


http://tomcat.esat.kuleuven.be/txtgate/images/distmat.png

A similarity matrix expresses the similarity between two data points.

Stem and leaf plot

http://mainland.cctt.org/mathsummer/JosephBond/StemAndPlots/images/table2.gif

A stem and leaf plot is another way to organize and display quantitative data. The stem accounts for the first number slots in a number while the leaf accounts for the final digit in a number.

Box plot

http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/topics/statgraph/proctemplate/images/boxplot.gif

A box plot is a convenient way to group together similar statistics.

Histogram

http://www.daisy2000.com/Daisy2003/HorizontalHistogram.gif

A histogram is a display of tabulated frequencies shown as bars. This histogram shows the amount of wins each jockey has had and the total winnings for a season.