Visualizing Data

Final Presentations:

Thursday, Dec. 12,     2:00 - 5:00
 

Class Assignments
 

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:

Willie Spruill

Lauren Schlenger

Joseph Mayer-Salman

Kayla Mullinax

Matt Mickle

David Knott

Nicole Eure

Melissa Bracey

Matt Bolt
 

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:
 

1.    Internet and Email Access

2.    General Remarks on Computing

3.    Web Page Development

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
 
 

If you have suggestions for improving this page, please send email to marron@stat.unc.edu.
 
 

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