Richard Gonzalez
Center Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
Director, BioSocial Methods Collaborative, RCGD
Amos N Tversky Collegiate Professor, Psychology and Statistics, LSA
Professor of Marketing, Stephen M Ross School of Business
Professor of Integrative Systems and Design, College of Engineering
| E-mail: | Email Richard Gonzalez |
| Address: | Research Center for Group Dynamics Institute for Social Research University of Michigan 426 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 |
| Phone: | 734-647-6785 |
Visualizing data
Alex Chavez and I wrote a chapter highlighting some modern graphical tools for getting a better handle on both data and model. This was an invited piece.
Chavez, A. & Gonzalez, R. (2009). Visualizing data, visualizing models: Getting priorities right when analyzing data. Problemy Zarzadzania, 7, nr 4 (26), 185-199. PDF
Abstract
We discuss methods of visualizing data and statistical models. The key innovation underlying these methods is that specialized graphs illustrate underlying patterns in data and they illustrate the properties of the statistical model that are used to analyze the data. These visualization techniques provide ways of understanding the underlying relation between variables, can illustrate how the statistical model works and can illustrate how the statistical model may not be capturing the underlying patterns among the variables.
