The Grammar of Graphics

2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4419-2033-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 691 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1060 g

Preface to First Edition Before writing the graphics for SYSTAT in the 1980’s, I began by teaching a seminar in statistical graphics and collecting as many different quantitative graphics as I could find. I was determined to produce a package that could draw every statistical graphic I had ever seen. The structure of the program was a collection of procedures named after the basic graph types they p- duced. The graphics code was roughly one and a half megabytes in size. In the early 1990’s, I redesigned the SYSTAT graphics package using - ject-based technology. I intended to produce a more comprehensive and - namic package. I accomplished this by embedding graphical elements in a tree structure. Rendering graphics was done by walking the tree and editing worked by adding and deleting nodes. The code size fell to under a megabyte. In the late 1990’s, I collaborated with Dan Rope at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Dan Carr at George Mason University to produce a graphics p- duction library called GPL, this time in Java. Our goal was to develop graphics components. This book was nourished by that project. So far, the GPL code size is under half a megabyte.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkinson, Leland

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wills, D.

Rope, D.

Norton, A.

Dubbs, R.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion Informationsvisualisierung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Präsentationsgraphik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Syntax.- How To Make a Pie.- Data.- Variables.- Algebra.- Scales.- Statistics.- Geometry.- Coordinates.- Aesthetics.- Facets.- Guides.- Semantics.- Space.- Time.- Uncertainty.- Analysis.- Control.- Automation.- Reader.- Coda.

Über Autor(innen)

Leland Wilkinson is Senior VP, SPSS Inc. And Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University. He is also affiliated with the Computer Science department at The University of Illinois at Chicago. He wrote the SYSTAT statistical package and founded SYSTAT Inc. In 1984. Wilkinson joined SPSS in a 1994 acquisition and now works on research and development of visual analytics and statistics. He is a Fellow of the ASA. In addition to journal articles and the original SYSTAT computer program and manuals, Wilkinson is the author (with Grant Blank and Chris Gruber) of Desktop Data Analysis with SYSTAT.