Graphics section

Resources and Links

Other Collections

• Michael Friendly's Gallery - A Gallery of Data Visualization
• Michael Friendly's Resources - Annotated resources for statistics, statistical graphics, and computation
• StatLib - statistical software, datasets, and information
• KDNuggets - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources
• Gene Shackman's set of links to sources on presenting data graphically.

Blogs

• FlowingData: strength in numbers. By Nathan Yau

Software

Open Source/Freeware/Shareware

• Arc (was R-code) - applying regression to data (Cook, Weisberg)
• Descartes - Intelligent Mapping and Visual Data Exploration in the WWW
• GGobi Data Visualization System (Swayne, Cook, Buja)
• MANET treats missing values equally in an interactive statistical environment. (Hofmann, Unwin)
• Mondrian is a general purpose statistical data-visualization system written in JAVA. It features excellent visualization techniques for categorical data, geographical data and large data.
• R - flexible presentation graphics.

Commercial

• DataDesk - interactive tools for data analysis based on Exploratory Data Analysis (Velleman)
• IRIS Explorer - General Data Viz tools
• IDL - Focus on image Viz, but has modules that have novel multivariate tools, eg ENVI
• ILOG Discovery - Visual data analysis tool to visualize and edit data sets in a very wide variety of views.
• JMP - statistical Discovery Software from SAS Institute
• jwave - web-based software
• S-Plus - flexible presentation and ineteractive graphics.
• Spotfire - general interactive graphics tools
• Visual Insights - general information visualization tools; spin-off from lucent. Now with separate affiliate for data visualization: Advizor Solutions.

Journals

General

• Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics
• Journal of Statistical Software
• International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Metrika)
• Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
• Journal of Computational Statistics

Special Issues

• International Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Computational Statistics Issue on Interactive Graphical Data Analysis

Centers

• AT& T Research - Visualization .
• Center for Computational Statistics - George Mason University.
• Department of Computer Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis, Augsburg University, Germany.
• Virtual Reality Application Center (Iowa State University) - data viz in virtual environments.
• National Center for Data Mining (University of Illinois at Chicago) - focus is in the applications of data mining.
• GeoVista (Penn State University) - Geographic visualization applications introducing software and demos.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Statistics & Data Sciences Section- Research involving latest statistical methods.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory: Statistical Sciences Section- Intensive research projects by government research employees.
• Nautilus Systems, Inc. - Corporation specializing in Data Mining and Data Warehousing.

Books

• Gnuplot in Action
  Philipp K. Janert. Manning Publications, 2008.
• Graphics of Large Datasets
  Antony Unwin, Martin Theus, Heike Hofmann. Springer, 2006
• Computing and Graphics in Statistics
  Buja, A. and Tukey, P.. Springer-Verlag; New York, NY. 1991.
• Dynamic Graphics for Statistics
  Cleveland, W. S. and McGill, M. E.. Wadsworth; Monterey, CA. 1998.
• Creating More Effective Graphs
  Naomi B. Robbins. Wiley; New York, NY. 2005.
• Elements of Graph Design
  Kosslyn, S.. Wiley; New York, NY. 1995.
• Envisioning Information
  Tufte, E. R.. Graphics Press; Cheshire, CT. 1990.
• The Grammar of Graphics
  Wilkinson, Leland. Springer; New York, NY. 1999.
  Also see Lee's pages on the book
• Graphics: Principles and Practice
  Foley, J. D., van Dam, A., Feiner, S. K. and Hughes, J. F.. Addison Wesley; Reading, MA. 1990.
• Information Visualization
  Card, Stuart K., Mackinlay, Jock D., Shneiderman, Ben. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; San Fransisco, CA. 1999
• Interactive Statistical Computing Environment
  Hardle, W., Klinke, S., and Turlach, B. A.. Springer-Verlag; New York, NY. 1995.
• Introduction to Regression Graphics
  Cook, R. Dennis and Weisberg, Sanford. Wiley; New York, NY. 1994.
• Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus
  Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B.. Springer-Verlag; New York, NY. 1994.
• Multivariate Density Estimation: Theory, Practice and Visualization
  Scott, David W.. Wiley; New York, NY. 1992.
• An Object-Oriented Environment for Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics
  Tierney, L.. Wiley; New York, NY. 1991.
• Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
  Ripley, B.. Cambridge University Press; Campridge, U. K. 1996.
• Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
  William Playfair. Introduction by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence. Cambridge University Press; Campridge, U. K. 2005.
• R Graphics
  Paul Murrell. Chapman Hall/CRC, Boca Raton 2005.
• Statistical Analysis and Data Display
  Richard M. Heiberger & Burt HollandSpringer. New York, NY2005..
• Statistical Graphics and Visualization
  Wegman, E. J. and Carr, D. B..in Rao (1993) Handbook of Statistics, Elsevier Science Publishers. Amsterdam.
• Statistical Image Processing and Graphics
  Wegman, E. J. and DePriest, D. J.. Marcel Dekker; New York, NY. 1986.
• Visualizing Data
  Cleveland, W. S.. Hobart Press; Summit NJ. 1993.
• Visualizing Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception from Napolean Bonaparte to Ross Perot
  Wainer, Howard. Copernicus: New York, NY. 1997.