Kuhn, Max wrote:
> Antony,
>
>
>> be drawn with R, all applied to the swiss fertility dataset. Are
>> these the kinds of graphics we would want to draw in a real
>> analysis?
>>
>
> You make a good point about what would need to be done for these data,
> that wasn't the objective of the graphic.
>
> I couldn't find the original posting, but there was a call for graphics
> that would best represent the visualization capabilities of R.
>
>
There was a competition in 2004, and this is the display that won.
It was deliberately designed as a "show-off" for the home page, and as
such, I don't think it can be the same sort of graphic that you'd use
for real analysis. It does have the nice feature of displaying results
of simple, yet non-trivial statistical analyses (PCA, clustering)
without requiring a lengthy explanation.
-p
> Look at the bright side: at least there isn't a pie chart in the image
> :-)
>
> Max
>
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