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The Grammar of Graphics

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Leland Wilkinson

    1. SPSS Inc., Chicago, USA

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  • Presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systems

Part of the book series: Statistics and Computing (SCO)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-19

  3. How to Make a Pie

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    Pages 21-41

  4. Data

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    Pages 43-56

  5. Variables

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    Pages 57-63

  6. Algebra

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    Pages 65-80

  7. Geometry

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    Pages 81-97

  8. Aesthetics

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    Pages 99-163

  9. Statistics

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    Pages 165-208

  10. Scales

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    Pages 209-230

  11. Coordinates

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    Pages 231-299

  12. Facets

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    Pages 301-328

  13. Guides

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    Pages 329-338

  14. Graphboard

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    Pages 339-352

  15. Reader

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    Pages 353-364

  16. Semantics

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    Pages 365-376

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 377-408
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About this book

Before writing the graphics for SYSTAT in the 1980's, I began by teaching a seminar in statistical graphics and collecting as many different quantitative graphics as I could find. I was determined to produce a package that could draw every statistical graphic I had ever seen. The structure of the program was a collection of procedures named after the basic graph types they p- duced. The graphics code was roughly one and a half megabytes in size. In the early 1990's, I redesigned the SYSTAT graphics package using - ject-based technology. I intended to produce a more comprehensive and - namic package. I accomplished this by embedding graphical elements in a tree structure. Rendering graphics was done by walking the tree and editing worked by adding and deleting nodes. The code size fell to under a megabyte. In the late 1990's, I collaborated with Dan Rope at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Dan Carr at George Mason University to produce a graphics p- duction library called GPL, this time in Java. Our goal was to develop graphics components. This book was nourished by that project. So far, the GPL code size is under half a megabyte.

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ZENTRALBLATT MATH

"Who should read this book? The simple answer is, of course, anyone who is interested in business or scientific graphics. This is the only book in print that lays out in detail how to write computer programs for business or scientific graphics."

SHORT BOOK REVIEWS

"This book reveals the kind of thinking that produced the versatile graphics component of those packages, and offers a foundation for quantitative graphics in the distributed computing environments of the future."

 

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  • SPSS Inc., Chicago, USA

    Leland Wilkinson

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