Why aren’t all of our graphs interactive?

Karl Broman

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin – Madison

http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman

Example: density estimate

Bandwidth = 1.00

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Example: scatterplot

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Opportunities

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Reproducible reports

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Biggish data

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Barriers

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Barriers

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Examples from JASA

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Examples from JASA

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Examples from JASA

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Examples from JASA

There are some nice ones.

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An alternative to tables

Carr & Pickle (2010) Visualizing data patterns with Micromaps.

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Options

Trade-offs

Easy or flexible?

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http://bl.ocks.org/1136236

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A lot to learn

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More D3 examples

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Acknowledgments

D3 and stack.js by

D3 tutorials by Scott Murray

CoffeeScript by Jeremy Ashkenas

Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke

CoffeeScript book by Trevor Burnham

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