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Explore non-conventional methods for visualizing multidimensional data, including Chernoff faces, Kruskal's Multidimensional Scaling, and Cartograms.
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Example of conventional analysis of multivariate data Example: A 2D sample of 100 observations is illustrated here using the two 1D cross-sectional histograms. Corr(x,y) = 0.04. Question: Can you guess the shape of the original sample?
Cross-sectional/correlation analysis misses the big picture! The original 2D sample
Analysis of marginal distributions has limited power • Nothing is better that a human eye • One wishes to “see” the whole picture, but we live in 3D world while the realistic data sets are coming from multi-dimensional spaces • Special visual methods have been developed to visualize multidimensional sets • We proceed with a brief review of different non-conventional methods to present multidimensional information for human visual analysis
Chernoff faces Idea: We are good at reading facial emotions
Chernoff faces Chernoff, H. (1973): The use of faces to represent statistical association, JASA, 68, pp. 361–368.
Chernoff faces Example: Economy is going to recession
Kruskal’s Multidimensional Scaling Idea: Redraw a p-dimensional point set in dimension q < p preserving as much pair-wise distances as possible.
Kruskal’s Multidimensional Scaling • Consider a set of N objects (points ) in p-dimensional space • Matrix of similarities (or distances) is given by • The goal of MDS is to find such points x1,…,xNin q-dimensional space that • Kruskal stress is a measure of discrepancy between the true and estimated similarities (distances)
Kruskal MDS results for distance between European cities (“eurodist”)
Cartograms Idea: Draw a map with areas corresponding to the quantity of interest, NOT physical area. Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA101, 7499-7504 (2004). http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/
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