Questions tagged [visualization]
Constructing meaningful and useful graphical representations of data. (If your question is only about how to get particular software to produce a specific effect, then it is likely not on topic here.)
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Use the output of 2 hidden neurons in the last hidden layer of a NN to visualize the result of a 4-class classification task
I am working on a 4-class classification task using an Artificial Neural Network. My aim is to visualize how well those 4 classes can be separated, moreover how consistent the data coming from each ...
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Visualization techniques best suited for building non-linear models
What's the recommended approach for identifying new predictors when building gradient boosting or support vector machine predictive models? I know that visualizations are often used to come up with ...
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Quick way to visually explore data?
I have a very large csv file which Apple Numbers won't open. I can open it with TextEdit, but each row is so long it forms multiple lines in the document and makes the document difficult to understand....
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How to visualize categorical data over time?
I'm visualizing results from lab tests. Most of these results are numerical and therefore easily communicated using line graphs, where the x-axis is time and the y-axis is determined by the range of ...
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Any usable libs to build and visualise SOM in python?
I tried SOMpy, though it is very crude now and works only with oldest versions of matplotlib.
Is there any fancy lib that can build SOM based on array and visualize it in Python?
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What is the standard for dealing with null values in plotting?
There's really no "standard," I assume, but how do you deal with null values when plotting data? An example of what I'm talking about is listed below:
Suppose I'm plotting data on number of toys by ...
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Time threshold maps plotting in R
I am trying to plot time threshold maps, proposed by Fryzlewicz. The relevant paper is: Time-Threshold Maps: using information from wavelet
reconstructions with all threshold values simultaneously.
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Visualizing large number of points as a 3D density map
The result of my computational simulation is a (time-dependent) system of large number (~100k) of moving points in a confined space. Each point has its own Cartesian coordinates as well as a weight (...
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How do I create a complex Radar Chart?
So, I want to create a Player Profile Radar Chart something like this:
Not only the scale of each variable different, but also I want a reversed scale for some statistics like the 'dispossessed' stat,...
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visualize a horizontal box plot in R
I have a dataset like this. The data has been collected through a questionnaire and I am going to do some exploratory data analysis.
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Projecting data from $S^n$ to $S^2$
I have few points in $S^n$, i.e., the $n$-dimensional unit sphere embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, and I would like to project them down to $S^2$, i.e., the 2-dimensional unit sphere (embedded in $\...
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R Programming, how to replicate for districts in a city
I am new to R Programming and just learned basics through codeschool.com
Our network spans the city, and it is divided into districts.
I would like to create a map that assigns a value (based on ...
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Plotting multiple datasets on a 3D plot
I want to make a 3D scatter plot of multiple data selections on a single plot (i.e same axes).
I know that in 2D this is possible by using par() function like so:
plot(6:25,rnorm(20),type="b&...
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How to analyze which site has most numbers
I am trying to determine which site in our organization is in greater need of upgrades to SEP 12, so when I run a query to count, I get these type of numbers
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Airline Fares - What analysis should be used to detect competitive price-setting behavior and price correlations?
I want to investigate price-setting behavior of airlines -- specifically how airlines react to competitors pricing.
As I would say my knowledge about more complex analysis is quite limited I've done ...
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Library/package/tool for geographical data visualizations
I am looking for a good free existing tool which visualizes geographical data (let's say in the form of coordinates) by plotting them on a map.
It can be a library (see this question on ...
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Tidying Time Intervals for Plotting a Histogram in R
I'm doing some cluster analysis on the MLTobs from the LifeTables package and have come across a tricky problem plotting ...
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How do I get Twitter Dataset for Visualization [closed]
I am a newbie. I would like to do visualization on twitter data : top trends based on country (over map) and time variations (for each months in 1 year or for each year) . Can someone tell me where ...
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How to visualize multivariate regression results
Are there commonly accepted ways to visualize the results of a multivariate regression for a non-quantitative audience? In particular, I'm asking how one should present data on coefficients and T ...
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Where can I find resources and papers regarding Data Science in the area of Public Health
I'm quite new to Data Science, but I would like to do a project to learn more about it.
My subject will be Data Understanding in Public Health.
So I want to do some introductory research to public ...
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Decision Tree Bayes rules / Maximax / Maximin
I need to draw a decision tree about this subject :
The research and development manager in an old oil company, which is
considering making some changes, lists the following courses of action
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List of used aliases in Tableau
I often get the problem when this or that alias name is already used somewhere, and I can't easily find that variable or aggregation to release the name.
Is there some place in Tableau where I can ...
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Graph layout for a network of molecules
I am looking for a suitable graph representation where the nodes/vertices are molecules with 2 main variables: structural characteristic and a real number property (for example biological potency). ...
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Visualize performance, % of goal implementation
I want to visualize goal achievment progress.
This is my first idea:
use area chart to show progress in current metric
use horizontal band to show the goal value
colorize areas under/above the band ...
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Interactive Graphing while logging data
I'm looking to graph and interactively explore live/continuously measured data. There are quite a few options out there, with plot.ly being the most user-friendly. Plot.ly has a fantastic and easy to ...
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Visualizing deep neural network training
I'm trying to find an equivalent of Hinton Diagrams for multilayer networks to plot the weights during training.
The trained network is somewhat similar to a Deep SRN, i.e. it has a high number of ...
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3D map using leaflet
I'm trying to create 3D bars on this map. Can anyone please advise if this is possible, and how?
http://leafletjs.com/examples/choropleth.html
My data: UFO sightings in the USA (location wise).
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Visualization of three-dimensional report
I have a visualization problem.
Creating a comparison report of PR event efficiency. Say, show or exhibition.
There are two dimensions of comparison:
compare vs the same event performance in the ...
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Change aliases of filter items in Tableau
Data sample contains a single feature: random integer number from 1 to 4.
Is it possble to change 1,2,3,4 representation on the filter card to some custom names, ...
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Visualizing Support Vector Machines (SVM) with Multiple Explanatory Variables
I was wondering if anyone was aware of any methods for visualizing an SVM model where there are more than three continuous explanatory variables. In my particular situation, my response variable is ...
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Visualization using D3
I am new to D3 programming (any programming, for that matter). I have protein-protein interaction data in JSON format and csv format. I would like to use that data for network visualization.
Data ...
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Geospatial Social Network Analysis Visualization
I have a data set that keeps track of who referred someone to a program, and includes the geo coordinates of both parties for each record.
What will be the best way to visualize this kind of data set?...
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Business exception reporting
I work in an analytical role at a a large financial services firm. We do a ton of daily reporting over metrics that rarely change in a meaningful way from day to day. From this daily reporting, our ...
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Which packages or functions can I use in R to plot 3D data like this?
There're many data points, each of which is associated with two coordinates and a numeral value, or three coordinates. And I wish it is coloured.
I checked packages "scatterplot3d" and "plot3D" but I ...
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Summarize and visualize a CSV in Java/Scala?
I would like to summarize (as in R) the contents of a CSV (possibly after loading it, or storing it somewhere, that's not a problem). The summary should contain the quartiles, mean, median, min and ...
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What do you use to generate a dashboard in R?
I need to generate periodic (daily, monthly) web analytics dashboard reports. They will be static and don't require interaction, so imagine a PDF file as the target output. The reports will mix tables ...
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How do you plot overlapping durations?
My data contains a set of start times and duration for an action. I would like to plot this so that for a given time slice I can see how many actions are active. I'm currently thinking of this as a ...
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Visualizing a graph with a million vertices
What is the best tool to use to visualize (draw the vertices and edges) a graph with 1000000 vertices? There are about 50000 edges in the graph. And I can compute the location of individual vertices ...
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Data visualization for pattern analysis (language-independent, but R preferred)
I want to plot the bytes from a disk image in order to understand a pattern in them. This is mainly an academic task, since I'm almost sure this pattern was created by a disk testing program, but I'd ...
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What visualization technique to best describe a recommendation dataset?
I've written a simple recommender which generates recommendations for users based on what they have clicked. The recommender generates a data file with the following format:
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Techniques for trend extraction from unbalanced panel data
My data set is formatted like this:
User-id | Threat_score
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ccc 20
The list contains the top 100 users with the highest threat ...
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What to consider before learning a new language for data analysis
I'm currently in the very early stages of preparing a new research-project (still at the funding-application stage), and expect that data-analysis and especially visualisation tools will play a role ...
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How do I figure out if subsets can be plotted in a normal Euler diagram?
In some cases, it may be impossible to draw Euler diagrams with overlapping circles to represent all the overlapping subsets in the correct proportions. This type of data then requires using polygons ...
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Are there any python based data visualization toolkits?
Data visualization is an important sub-field of data science and python programmers need to have available toolkits for them.
Is there a Python API to Tableau?
Are there any Python based data ...
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How to animate growth of a social network?
I am seeking for a library/tool to visualize how social network changes when new nodes/edges are added to it.
One of the existing solutions is SoNIA: Social Network Image Animator. It let's you make ...
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