{"id":18,"date":"2014-12-28T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2014-12-28T02:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T02:08:04","slug":"principles-of-analytic-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Principles of Analytic Graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Principle 1: Show comparisons:<\/strong> show evidence for a hypothesis is always relative to another hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle 2: Show relationships:<\/strong> The relationships can be causality, mechanism, explanation, systematic structure. This is the purpose of an analytic graphics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle 3: Show multivariate data:<\/strong> The real world is always complex and multivariate. It&#8217;s more likely to reflect the true picture using multivariate data. Otherwise, we assume all other factors not included are the same (or homogeneous) for each group displayed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle 4: Integrate multiple modes of evidence:<\/strong> Each mode of evidence explains one perspective of the relationships. Integration of multiple modes can then better disclose the full spectrum of the relationships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle 5: Describe and document the evidence:\u00a0<\/strong>A data graphic should tell a complete story that is credible. It helps develop credibility to document a graph with appropriate labels, scales, sources, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle 6: Content is king.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>adapted from course note of &#8216;Exploratory Data Analysis&#8217; (John Hopkins Data Science Specialization course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principle 1: Show comparisons: show evidence for a hypothesis is always relative to another hypothesis. Principle 2: Show relationships: The relationships can be causality, mechanism, explanation, systematic structure. This is the purpose of an analytic graphics. Principle 3: Show multivariate data: The real world is always complex and multivariate. It&#8217;s more likely to reflect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phillippeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}