Course Outline 2003

Multivariate Data Visualization

Course Outline:

People planning to attend the shortcourse should plan to bring a laptop with GGobi and R loaded (or coordinate to share with someone who is bringing a laptop).

People who do not have GGobi and/or R need to be sure to download GGobi from www.ggobi.org and/or R from cran.r-project.org. GOT DATA?

The presenter is looking for a few good "local" data sets.

Specifically the Data Set Preferences are:

- something of interest to you and, hopefully, other AK ASA members
- multivariate (even 10 - 20 variables would be fine)
- continuous if possible, but a mix of continuous and categorical is okay
- modeling-type data [with distinct predictor (or predictors) and response variables] make for potentially more interesting examples (modeling, assessment of model fit, etc.)
- space or time data, also good

This is like free consulting folks!

Reference:

Review article on Multivariate Data Visualization:

McLeod and S. B. Provost (to appear in the Encyclopedia of Environmetrics)
http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/aim/mviz/default.htm [earlier link no longer works ... see: http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/aim/vita/pdf/mviz.pdf instead]

Further related information:

GGOBI book (pdf downloads of sections)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Edicook/ggobi-book/ggobi.html [Link no longer works ... book as since been published, see: http://www.ggobi.org/book/ for similar links, etc.]

On a related note: Michael Friendly's Gallery of Data Visualization:

(http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/)

MEETING ORGANIZER:

Joel Reynolds
Phone: 786-3914
Email: Joel_Reynolds@fws.gov

Feel free to contact me.