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Data Visualization

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Data can often be very effectively analyzed using visualization techniques. Standard visualization methods for object data are plots and scatter plots. To visualize high-dimensional data, projection methods are necessary. We present linear projection (principal component analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform, singular value decomposition, eigenvector projection, Hotelling transform, proper orthogonal decomposition, multidimensional scaling) and nonlinear projection methods (Sammon mapping, auto-encoder). Data distributions can be estimated and visualized using histogram techniques. Periodic data (such as time series) can be analyzed and visualized using spectral analysis (cosine and sine transforms, amplitude and phase spectra).

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Runkler, T.A. (2020). Data Visualization. In: Data Analytics. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29779-4_4

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