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   * Naomi Robbins (2012), Bill Clinton's Speech in Misleading Graphs, Forbes ([[http://www.forbes.com/sites/naomirobbins/2012/09/06/bill-clintons-speech-in-misleading-graphs/|link]])
   * <html><span style="color:#666;">Ian C. Campbell (2012), Misleading with pictures: The pitfalls of data visualization</span></html> ([[http://figureoneblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/misleading-with-pictures-the-pitfalls-of-data-visualization/|link]])
+  * <html><span style="color:#666;">Hannah Groch-Begley & David Shere (2012), A History Of Dishonest Fox Charts</span></html> ([[http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/01/a-history-of-dishonest-fox-charts/190225|link]])
-====== Visualization and Data Presentation 2 ======
-The second lecture on visualization on October 20th mainly concerned Edward R. Tufte's general theory of graphics display put forth in his book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" (VDQI).
+Here are also some more websites on charts:
-===== Questions =====
+  * [[http://www.visualcomplexity.com/]]
-In the lecture there were two questions I could not respond to adequately, and I said I would answer them on the wiki.
+  * [[http://labs.juiceanalytics.com/chartchooser/index.html|Juise Labs Chart Chooser]]
+  * [[http://www.mymarketresearchmethods.com/types-of-charts-choose/|Types of Charts: Choose the Best Chart to Convey Your Message]]
-==== Pulsar plot====
+  * [[http://online-behavior.com/analytics/chart-types|Nuts and Bolts of Chart & Graph Types]]
+  * [[http://www.typesofgraphs.com/]]
-One question concerned what was being depicted in the following figure taken from Tufte's VDQI book:
-{{:rem4:tufte_hankins_pulsar.png?800|}}
-I don't really know anything more than what it says in the caption as I cannot access Hankins and Rickett's 1975 article that Tufte took the figure from. I did look up some information about pulsars (pulsating stars). They emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation at a fairly fixed interval. These pulses have a certain frequency spectrum that you could compare to a certain sound or color, but instead of matter or light, these waves are electromagnetic and at a much higher frequency. I'm not sure what the practical significance is, because the pulsar literature that I found with similar graphs isn't concerned with frequency, but other things like phase and longitude of the pulse. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but it is also possible that the field has changed focus since 1975 (which was only 8 years after the discovery of pulsars).
-Each line in the graph presumably corresponds to a single pulse, which seems to be the general practice in the field. Apparently they are more interested in the differences between pulses, and less in how the magnitude of a certain frequency changes over time. If we use the color analogy again, this might make sense because the actual (perceivable) color depends on adding the entire frequency spectrum together, so the magnitude of any one frequency might not say much on its own (but this is just speculation on my part). The graph on top shows the average frequency spectrum / profile / "color", and the graph on the side basically shows how the power of pulses varied over time.
-Some resources on pulsars:
-  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar|Wikipedia]]
-  * [[http://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/everyone/pulsars/index.html|An Introduction to Pulsars]] by Maryam Hobbs of the Australia Telescope National Facility
-  * [[http://www.cv.nrao.edu/course/astr534/Pulsars.html|Pulsar Properties]] by J. J. Condon and S. M. Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
-  * [[http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/gmrt_hpage/Users/doc/WEBLF/LFRA/node156.html|Pulse Studies]] by Jayaram N Chengalur, Yashwant Gupta and K. S. Dwarakanath of the The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
-==== Rugplots ====
-Another question asked about concrete examples of rugplots. As Tufte describes them, these consist of multiple dot-dash-plots connected by the dashes. Adjacent plots have one dimension in common and one that is different. This allows juxtaposition of relevant dimensions and comparison of variable pair relations in a way that a small multiple of scatterplots wouldn't. Furthermore, with sparse data, it is possible to track single datums through multiple variable dimensions.
-This seemed like a nifty idea to me, but I have only been able to find one article that uses it: Studinger et al., “Determinants of Baroreflex Function in Juvenile End-Stage Renal Disease.” [[http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v69/n12/full/5000307a.html|Figure 3]] is a rugplot and seems like a natural way to depict stepwise regression, because there should usually be interesting relationships between subsequently added variables. However, I will admit that I don't fully understand from Table 5 why Figure 3 doesn't include more plots...
-I will play around a bit with some of my own data sets and see if I can construct an illuminating rugplot.
-I should also note that apparently people are also using the term "rugplot" to refer to single dot-dash-plots or even just to their "dash" parts. I have no idea how this happened, because it seems the source of the term is definitely Tufte and he describes the idea fairly clearly, but you should probably be aware of this confusion.