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Online Papers and Presentations

SAS SUGI papers

SAS/Graph software meets the logo turtle (SUGI 15, 1990 paper) Statistical graphics for multivariate data (SUGI 16, 1991 paper) Graphical methods for categorical data (SUGI 17, 1992 paper) A simulation design project for experimental design based on SAS software (SUGI 18, 1993 paper) Designer graphics: Anatomy of some SAS macros for statistical graphics (SUGI 20, 1995 paper) Visualizing categorical data: Data, stories, and pictures (SUGI 25, 2000 paper) Multidimensional arrays in SAS/IML (SUGI 25, 2000 paper) A reader's guide to Visualizing Categorical Data(SUGI 26, 2001 paper) Categorical data analysis with graphics(SUGI 28, 2003 slides)

Graphical methods

Applications to cognitive psychology

On the description of subcultural lexicons: A multidimensional approach (JPSP 1970 paper) In search of the M-Gram: The structure of organization in free recall (Cognitive Psychology 1977 paper) The Toronto Word Pool (BRMI & C 1982 paper)

Visualizing categorical data: mosaic displays and other methods

Various papers and talks on methods for visualizing categorical data. Also see my books:

• Visualizing Categorical Data (SAS)
• Discrete Data Analysis with R

Mosaic displays Mosaic Displays for Loglinear Models (ASA 1992 paper) Mosaic Displays for Multi-Way Contingency Tables (JASA 1994 paper) Extending Mosaic Displays: Marginal, Partial and Conditional Views of Categorical Data (Drew/JCGS paper); (JCGS paper) A Brief History of Mosaic Displays (JCGS paper)

Visualizing Categorical Data (CASM paper) Visual and Conceptual Models for Categorical Data (American Statistician 1995 paper) Conceptual models for visualizing contingency table data, in Greenacre & Blasius, Visualizing Categorical Data (PDF) A Fourfold Display for 2 x 2 x k Tables (Technical report) Note on ``Obtaining the Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Incomplete R x C Contingency Tables...'' (JCGS paper) Visualizing Categorical Data in ViSta (CSDA paper) Advances in Visualizing Categorical Data Using the vcd, gnm and vcdExtra Packages in R (CARME 2011 slides, 4up) General Models and Graphs for Log Odds and Log Odds Ratios (CARME 2015 slides, 4up)

Linear models and multivariate linear models

Corrgrams: Exploratory displays for correlation matrices (TAS paper) Effect Ordering for Data Displays (CSDA paper) Visualizing multivariate uncertainty (National Academies of Science, 2005 slides) Hypothesis-Error (HE) plots HE Plots for Multivariate Linear Models (JCGS paper) Data Ellipses, HE plots and Reduced-rank displays for MLMs: SAS software and examples (JSS paper) (SCS slides) Visual Hypothesis Tests in Multivariate Linear Models: The heplots Package for R. (DSC 2007 paper) HE plots for Repeated Measures Designs (JSS paper) Hypothesis Tests for Multivariate Linear Models Using the car Package (R Journal paper) Recent Advances in Visualizing Multivariate Linear Models (Statistics Society of Canada 2013, slides & R) Visualizing multivariate linear models in R (useR 2019, Toulouse slides) || YouTube video Graphical methods for multivariate linear models in psychological research: An R tutorial (TQMP paper)

Elliptical Insights: Understanding Statistical Methods through Elliptical Geometry (Statistical Science paper) Supplementary materials for STS paper SORA-TABA 2017 slides ; SORA-TABA, 4-up slides The Generalized Ridge Trace Plot: Visualizing Bias and Precision (JCGS paper) Supplementary materials R genridge package on CRAN Visualizing Tests for Equality of Covariance Matrices (TAS paper, 2018) Supplementary Appendix R code for examples

Better tables and graphs

Visualizing Collinearity Diagnostics: Where's Waldo? (TAS paper) Supplementary materials for TAS paper R tableplot package on CRAN Tableplot: A New Tool for Assessing Precise Predictions (Zeitschrift/Journal of Psychology) Comment (Graph People versus Table People) (JCGS)

Software for visualization

Tools for Thinking in Statistical Computation and Graphics (QM Forum presentation) The History of ViSta: The Visual Statistics System (Wire article)

History of graphics & data visualization

General historical papers & presentations

Milestones in the History of Data Visualization: A Case Study in Statistical Historiography (GFKL paper) The Past, Present and Future of Statistical Graphics VIEWS, London, 2004 (VIEWS slides) Swiss Statistical Meeting, 2007 (Slides) Visualizing Nature and Society (Maps book chapter) (8 Mb!) The Milestones Project: A Database for the History of Data Visualization (Visible Numbers book chapter) A Brief History of Data Visualization (Handbook of Data Visualization chapter) On the Origins of Data Visualization (Chapter 27 in Statistics in the Public Interest, In Memorium of Stephan E. Feinberg)

Slides from various related talks

Visions of the Past, Present and Future of Statistical Graphics: An Ideo-Graphic View" (APA 2003 slides) 7 +- 2 Stories from the History of Data Visualization (GeoVis 2006 slides) Galton's Greatest Graphical Discovery (Psychology In-house 2007 slides) The Present and Future of Statistical Graphics (Swiss Statistical Meeting, 2007, slides) Big Data and Big Questions: Vignettes and lessions from the history of data visualization (Fields Institute, Big Data workshop 2015 slides) Visions of the Past, Present and Future of Data Visualization: Graphical Successes from the Golden Age (Rostock Retreat June 2017 slides) The Prehistory of Dynamic & Interactive Graphics: Visualizing Time and Motion (JSM Aug. 2017 slides) A Very Brief History of Visualization (Chicago Humanities Festival, Nov. 2018 slides) A gleam in the mind’s eye: Stories & lessons from the history of data visualization Statistical Society of Canada, June 2021 slides My Life in Pictures: Tales of a Graphic Developer and Amateur Historian of #datavis Uncharted Software, April 2022 slides A Celebration of Les Chevaliers des Albums de Statistique Graphique Barry Ruderman Conference on Catrography, Rumsey Map Center, Oct. 2023 slides

Visual Thinking

Visual Answers to Scientific Questions (American Scientist, v. 107, Jul/Aug 2019) The Rise of Visual Thinking and Graphic Communication (MSDS Lab talk, Utrecht, Oct. 24, 2019) Visual Thinking and Graphic Discovery (Medium article, Oct. 2019) The Graphical Birth of Plate Tectonics (CHANCE, 2020, v. 33) Galton's Gleam: Visual Thinking and Graphic Discoveries (Significance, June 2020) Raiders of the Lost Tombs: The Search for Some Heroes in the History of Data Visualization (Medium) Displaying Information: From Wolly Mammoths to the Great Migration (In: International Encyclopedia of Education, 4th Ed.)

Graph-specific histories

The History of the Cluster Heat Map (TAS paper) A Brief History of Mosaic Displays (JCGS paper preprint); published version: (JCGS paper) The Early Origins and Development of the Scatterplot (JHBS 2005 paper) The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics Talk: (Chicago Maps Society, 2007, slides) Paper: (Statistical Science paper) The Radiant Diagrams of Florence Nightingale (SORT 2021 paper)

Visualizing the Titanic Disaster

Article: (Significance paper) Presentation: (JSM 2019 slides) JSM Proceedings paper: Web page: (100+ Years of Titanic Graphs)

Charles Joseph Minard

Visions and Re-Visions of Charles Joseph Minard (JEBS paper); Re-Visions of Minard web page The Graphic Works of Charles Joseph Minard (web bib catalog)

André-Michel Guerry

A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis (Statistical Science paper) Supplementary materials for Statistical Science paper André-Michel Guerry and the Rise of Moral Statistics (JSM 2006 slides) Guerry, Life and Works Un Tourangeau trop discret: André-Michel Guerry (1802--1866) (Academie de Touraine) The Life and Works of André-Michel Guerry (1802--1866) (English version) || (Estonian translation by Karolin Lohmus) The Life and Works of André-Michel Guerry (1802--1866), Revisited (Sociological Spectrum) Supplemental materials for GuerryLife2 paper André-Michel Guerry's Ordonnateur Statistique: The First Statistical Calculator? (The American Statistician). Supplementary Materials for TAS paper

Michael Florent van Langren

The First (Known) Statistical Graph: Michael Florent van Langren and the "Secret" of Longitude: (The American Statistician paper) [pre-publication version] Supplementary materials for TAS paper

Modern histories

Rememberances of Things EDA || (Preprint) Colorless Green Graphs Sleep Furiously: A Conversation with Leland Wilkinson