Visualizing Data
Final Presentations:
Thursday, Dec. 12,
2:00 - 5:00
Class Notes:
Meeting 12/3/02: Reviewed Student Progress
Meeting 11/26/02: Reviewed Student Progress
Meeting 11/21/02: Scatterplot Smoothing
Meeting 11/19/02: Aspect Ratio in Graphics
Meeting 11/14/02: Kernel Density Estimation using Matlab
Meeting 11/12/02: Histograms, Smoothing, Kernel Density Estimation
Meeting 11/7/02: Reviewed Student Progress
Meeting 11/5/02: Matlab Script Files, and Some Real Data Analysis
Meeting 10/31/02: Reviewed Student Progress
Meeting 10/29/02: Scatterplots
Meeting 10/24/02: Importing Data to Matlab
Meeting 10/22/02: Matlab Graphics
Meeting 10/17/02: Fall Break, No Class
Meeting 10/15/02: More Matlab
Meeting 10/10/02: Start Matlab
Meeting 10/8/02: Talk in Augsburg (How to Visualize a Million)
Meeting 10/3/02: Talk at Allerton (Internet Traffic Data)
Meeting 10/1/02: Random Dot Stereogram, Introduction to Matlab
Meeting 9/26/02: Box Plots
Meeting 9/24/02: Looked at Works in Progress, Solved Class Assignment 4
Meeting 9/19/02: Proportion of Males at UNC
Meeting 9/17/02: Random Sampling
Meeting 9/12/02: Review of Web Pages and Histograms
Meeting 9/10/02: More Buffalo Snow Fall, Presidential Elections, Random Sampling
Meeting 9/5/02: More with histograms, Excel construction, Buffalo Snow Fall data
Meeting 9/3/02: Class Cancelled, SAMSI Grand Opening
Meeting 8/29/02 Introduction to Histograms
Meeting 8/27/02: Andrew Frick, OASIS, will load "AFS" and "Matlab" onto your notebook. Bring your computer, with: (a) battery (b) wireless network card (c) CD drive. Important Note: This class meeting will be in Phillips Hall 324 (Computer Lab, 3rd Floor, which overlooks the front door)
Meeting 8/22/02 Why visualization, and not summary statistics
Meeting
8/20/02 Examples of published "bad graphics"
Student Web Pages:
Fall Semester, 2002
Class Meetings:
T-Th 2:00-3:15, New West 212
Instructor: Steve Marron, Professor
Email: marron@email.unc.edu (checked regularly)
Phones:
UNC Office: 962-2188
SAMSI Office: 685-9353
Home:
493-2844
FAX:
962-1279
UNC Office: 304 New West
Office Hours:
"Always": Tuesday 1:00 - 2:00, Thursday 1:00 - 2:00
Usually: Monday 1:00 - 3:30
Tuesday 9:00 - 3:00
Thursday 9:00 - 3:00
Recommendation: Confirm times by email.
Grading: Based on web page development and periodic oral presentation.
You develop (via your web page) and present to the class your progress on some interesting views of data, with conclusions drawn.
Start thinking about "your
favorite data sets"... Sports? Finance Data? Weather?
Something from the Internet?
Textbook:
Cleveland W. S. (1999)
Visualizing Data, Hobart Press.
Computational Tips:
2. General Remarks on Computing
4. First Class Assignment: Create your own Home Page
5. Importing graphics to web pages:
6. Second Class Assignment: Add a graphic to your web page
7. More Netscape Composer Tips
8. Microsoft Excel & Simple Graphics
9. Microsoft Excel & Histograms
10.
Microsoft Excel and Random Number Generation
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marron@stat.unc.edu.
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