DataVisualizations-package: Visualizations of High-Dimensional Data

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Visualizations of High-Dimensional Data

Description

Gives access to data visualisation methods that are relevant from the data scientist's point of view. The flagship idea of 'DataVisualizations' is the mirrored density plot (MD-plot) for either classified or non-classified multivariate data published in Thrun, M.C. et al.: "Analyzing the Fine Structure of Distributions" (2020), PLoS ONE, <DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0238835>. The MD-plot outperforms the box-and-whisker diagram (box plot), violin plot and bean plot and geom_violin plot of ggplot2. Furthermore, a collection of various visualization methods for univariate data is provided. In the case of exploratory data analysis, 'DataVisualizations' makes it possible to inspect the distribution of each feature of a dataset visually through a combination of four methods. One of these methods is the Pareto density estimation (PDE) of the probability density function (pdf). Additionally, visualizations of the distribution of distances using PDE, the scatter-density plot using PDE for two variables as well as the Shepard density plot and the Bland-Altman plot are presented here. Pertaining to classified high-dimensional data, a number of visualizations are described, such as f.ex. the heat map and silhouette plot. A political map of the world or Germany can be visualized with the additional information defined by a classification of countries or regions. By extending the political map further, an uncomplicated function for a Choropleth map can be used which is useful for measurements across a geographic area. For categorical features, the Pie charts, slope charts and fan plots, improved by the ABC analysis, become usable. More detailed explanations are found in the book by Thrun, M.C.: "Projection-Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence" (2018) <DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-20540-9>.

Details

For a brief introduction to DataVisualizations please see the vignette A Quick Tour in Data Visualizations.

Please see https://www.deepbionics.org/. Depending on the context please cite either [Thrun, 2018] regarding visualizations in the context of clustering or [Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] for other visualizations.

For the Mirrored Density Plot (MD plot) please cite [Thrun et al., 2020] and see the extensive vignette in https://md-plot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html. The MD plot is also available in Python https://pypi.org/project/md-plot/

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Author(s)

Michael Thrun, Felix Pape, Onno Hansen-Goos, Alfred Ultsch

Maintainer: Michael Thrun <[e-mail]>

References

[Thrun, 2018] Thrun, M. C.: Projection Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence, doctoral dissertation 2017, Springer, Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-658-20539-3, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/978-3-658-20540-9")}, 2018.

[Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] Thrun, M. C., & Ultsch, A. : Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, in Papiez, M. & Smiech,, S. (eds.), Proc. 12th Professor Aleksander Zelias International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, pp. 533-542, Cracow: Foundation of the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland, 2018.

[Thrun et al., 2020] Thrun, M. C., Gehlert, T. & Ultsch, A.: Analyzing the Fine Structure of Distributions, PLoS ONE, Vol. 15(10), pp. 1-66, DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0238835, 2020.

Examples

data("Lsun3D")
Data=Lsun3D$Data

Pixelmatrix(Data)



InspectDistances(as.matrix(dist(Data)))


MAlist=MAplot(ITS,MTY)

data("Lsun3D")
Cls=Lsun3D$Cls
Data=Lsun3D$Data
#clear cluster structure
plot(Data[,1:2],col=Cls)
#However, the silhouette plot does not indicate a very good clustering in cluster 1 and 2

Silhouetteplot(Data,Cls = Cls)


Heatmap(as.matrix(dist(Data)),Cls = Cls)

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