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For good habits or appropriate form you can do worse than to read Edward Tufte's books.
The fact is that until relatively recently (1970's) graph-based exploratory data analysis hadn't been really a part of statistics, and I don't think even today academic statisticians or statistics books really give it the prominence it deserves. So really I cannot recommend sources for how to learn or teach graphing.
Another book you might want to look at is How to lie with statistics which is an entertaining little booklet from the 1950's which illustrates a lot of the pitfalls to be avoided when making graphs. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
Do you know any good, usable programs for making graphs? I find excel to be rather limited in its aesthetics.
I haven't tried it, but I think Jaguar (Java Gui for R) coould be a really nice environment for those less statistically inclined. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
But there's no need to tailor the tutorial to that ... a tutorial on using R to plot things of interest is fine. The main hurdles on learning a language-based approach rather than something like a spreadsheet is getting the basic Gestalt of the language and knowing how to do something from beginning to end ... once that foundation is in place, the balance can be picked up incrementally.
So something where a statistical language approach has substantial advantages ... maybe a tutorial on plotting EU-wide and Eurozone time series data based on data on individual countries. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
And, of course, exploratory data analysis using graphs.
I should be able to write a couple of diaries on that - I just hope they won't come up too arid/boring/technical. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
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