Data Exploration and Visualization

Software

• R and S See special R/S page
• XLISP-STAT  See special Xlisp-Stat page (ARC, VISTA and others sources)
• DataDesk, Data Description Inc., (Paul Velleman). Also ActivStats (teaching stats) and Viz!on (Excel add-on), both related to DataDesk.
• GGOBI Visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data (Older site: XGOBI and XVIS Visualisation Software (free)
• SAS
• JMP Statistical Discovery Software from SAS Institute.
• SAS Stat Studio ( Studio and SAS/Insight comparison; SAS/Insight will no longer be available after SAS 9.2)
• SAS Macros for data exploration by Dominique Ladiray (INSEE) (documentation in French)
• EDA Software Package, Eugene Horber, University of Geneva
• XploRe Exploratory and graphical language developped by W. Härdle (Humboldt University, Berlin)
• MARS & CART Jerome Friedman's piecewise regression methods
• Fathom: Dynamic Statistics Software for Deeper Understanding (Teaching software) Evaluation version, and teacher ressources.
• Tableau Visual Data Analysis
• Software from http://www.rosuda.org University of Augsburg, Dept of mathematics (A. Unwin):
  • Manet (Missings Are Now Equally Treated) Graphical Exploration (Heike Hofmann)
  • Mondrian (Data-visualization system written for Categorical, Geographical and large data sets)
  • GAUGUIN Grouping And Using Glyphs Uncovering Individual Nuances)
  • MORET (Exploratory Modelling Analysis)
  • CASSATT (Parallel coordinate plots for multidimensional data)
  • Pissarro (Generation and visualization of association rules)
  • Renoir (Interactive graphical analysis of markets and shares)
  • Turner (Interactive analysis of multidimensional discrete data [Mac only])
  • Van Gogh (Visualization and analysis of networks and flows)
  • KLIMT (Classification trees)
• Visalix Visual Interactive System for Annotation and Learning at Xerox

Programming

• Quail Programming environment for Statistics in Common Lisp
• nViZn Java SDK based on Wilkinson's Grammar of Graphics]

On-line Statistics (focus on exploration and graphics)

• GASP The globally accessible Statistical Procedures Initiative. Includes on-line statistical procedures and Java applets, as well as the Java based WebStat statistical package.
• HyperStat Online, David Lane's impressive on-line statistics book/course; has a lot of pointers to interesting places including on-line procedures.
• Matt Carlton and Jan de Leeuw have produced a number of on-line statistical procedures, namely a Boxplot Maker, Parallel Boxplot Maker, Q-Q Plot Maker, Histogram Maker

Courses

• Graphical data analyis Jeff Banfield's course (Montana)
• Links to statistics courses (in general) collected by J. Puranen Helsinki

Other

• Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG) an initiative of the Joint Information System Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils and the Research Councils
• Bell Labs Statistical and Data Mining Research Reports