LIS 4317 – Quant Knot

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Visualizing COVID-19 Gene Sequencing Contributions

The Problem As the COVID-19 pandemic has raged, researchers have been working to track the virus and monitor its evolution. We have seen in the news a lot of discussion regarding South African, UK, and other variants of the virus. However, it is difficult to assume there is a consistent…

By Simon Liles April 25, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Animated Graphics

Most data visualizations are static, and while one can visualize a fair number of variables, however it can still be limited. Since we are in the 21st century, we can take advantage of our access to computer graphics and reveal more about the data by adding motion. This could be…

By Simon Liles April 11, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Networks

Network analysis is a very useful tool for describing complex relationships between many entities. To explore the concepts of network analysis I created 26 entities and randomly generated connections between them. To do this I wrote an R script which you can find on my GitHub here, or follow the…

By Simon Liles April 4, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Making a Tufte Style Visualization

Edward Tufte set out principles of design for the visualization of data. One of the big take aways from his teachings is to maximize the amount of data in a visualization, and minimize the amount of ink that is used. Often extraneous markings on a visual will just obscure the…

By Simon Liles March 28, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Visualizing Time Series Data

A lot of data is simply a few of variables that can be plotted in almost any way you want to. Then we have time series data, which adds a time component, and not only is it continuous, but it also defines the order of the points. Time series plots…

By Simon Liles March 21, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Multivariate Analysis and the 5 Principles of Design

This week was multivariate analysis. Generally useful data has more than 2 variables and to find a useful pattern, many of those variables need to be plotted together in a two dimensional space. While we could go up to 3D, that is generally not recommended for a variety of reasons,…

By Simon Liles March 13, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Correlation Analysis

Correlation and Regression analysis are very powerful tools when exploring data. These two forms of analysis are very useful when it comes to process improvement, take the case of a plant that converts ammonia into nitric acid. After the ammonia has been oxidized, it is passed into an absorption tower…

By Simon Liles March 7, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Distribution Analysis

This week was about distribution analysis. This week I made the above figure using the iris dataset in R using ggplot2. You can find the code I used to make the plot on GitHub here, or follow the link at the bottom of this post. The dataset is the famous…

By Simon Liles February 27, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Spotting Differences

For this week's visualization I used the default mtcars dataset that comes with R. This dataset was extracted from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine. The dataset has 11 variables that include things such as horsepower, fuel efficiency, weight, etc. In total, there are 32 cars listed in this data…

By Simon Liles February 20, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Part to Whole and Working with Plotly

This week I was given an excel spreadsheet of values and had to use Plotly to create a visualization of the data. The result I came up with is the above graphic. I plotted the data as time series data and shaded the area under the line to make it…

By Simon Liles February 14, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work