STAT 663 / CSI 773
Statistical Graphics and Data Exploration

Instructor: Daniel B. Carr

Office: Engineering Building Room 1711
Phone: (703) 993-1671
Email: dcarr@gmu.edu
Hours: Tuesday 6-7 PM before class, brief discussion after class, and by appointment

Class Resources

R and S-Plus Resources

R Project
Comprehensive R Archive Network
Nice R overview with short examples (by Robert I. Kabacoff)
StatLib Index (Datasets, S functions, and Statistics Information)

GMU Resources

Creating a Mason Cluster Accound and Web Site

Interesting Web Sites on Graphics and Visualization

Gapminder
- Graphics for Nations of the World
- Scatterplot + circle size and color + time animation
- Tranformations and transfer function control
- Focusing and memory (for animation) methods
Cindy Brewer
Color Brewer
Bill Cleveland
Michael Friendly's Gallery
Pat Hanrahan
Lee Wilkinson
Edward Tufte
Martin Wattenberg
Wattenberg's Name Voyage and Mapper
Rensink Change Blindness Download
Derren Brown- Person Swap
Micheal Bach Visual Illusions
Katy Borner
W. Bradford Paley
Paley-TextArc (I had trouble getting out of the applet so may show it in class) )
John Stasko Visual Interfaces

Larger Perspectives

General references for scientific software

GAMS (Guide to Available Software, NIST)
Fortran 90
Matlab - Courtesy of Math/Stat Center Indiana University
Maple - Courtesy of Math/State Center Indiana University

Other tools and languages