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- Extensions Asymmetrical faces Chernoff Fish
- In Literature
- References
- Further reading
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Chernoff faces, invented by Herman Chernoff in 1973, display multivariate data in the shape of a human face. The individual parts, such as eyes, ears, mouth and nose represent values of the variables by their shape, size, placement and orientation. The idea behind using faces is that humans easily recognize faces and notice small changes without difficulty. Chernoff faces handle each variable differently. Because the features of the faces vary in perceived importance, the way in which variables are mapped to the features should be carefully chosen (e.g. eye size and eyebrow-slant have been found to carry significant weight).[1]DetailChernoff faces themselves can be plotted on a standard X-Y graph; the faces can be positioned X-Y based on the two most important variables, and then the faces themselves represent the rest of the dimensions for each item. Edward Tufte, presenting such a diagram, says this kind of Chernoff face graph would "reduce well, maintaining legibility even with individual areas of .05 square inches as shown...with cartoon faces and even numbers becoming data measures, we would appear to have reached the limit of graphical economy of presentation, imagination, and let it be admitted, eccentricity."[2] ExtensionsAsymmetrical facesIn 1981, Bernhard Flury and Hans Riedwyl suggested 'asymmetrical' Chernoff faces; since a face has vertical symmetry (around the y-axis), the left side of the face is identical to the right and is basically wasted space – a point also made by Tufte.[3] One could have the 18 variables that specify the left be one set of data, but use a different set of data for the right side of the face, allowing one face to depict 36 different measurements. They present results showing that such asymmetrical faces are useful in visualizing databases of identical twins, for example, and are useful in grouping as pairs of Chernoff faces would be. Chernoff FishIn Visualizing Financial Data, ({{ISBN|978-1-118-90785-6}}), Julie Rodriguez and Piotr Kaczmarek use 'Chernoff Fish' where various parts of a cartoon fish are used to encode different financial details. In LiteratureIn the Peter Watts novel Blindsight a transhuman character is seen using Chernoff Faces. This is explained by the character as a more efficient method of representing data as a large portion of the human brain is devoted to facial recognition. In the sci-fi short story Degrees of Freedom by Karl Schroeder, Chernoff Faces make a prominent appearances as a future technology supporting the communication of aggregate sentiment and perspective.[4] References1. ^"An Experimental Analysis of the Pre-Attentiveness of Features in Chernoff Faces", Morris CJ, Ebert DS, Rheingans P. 1999; published by the conference "Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition: 3D Visualization for Data Exploration and Decision Making". http://www.research.ibm.com/people/c/cjmorris/publications/Chernoff_990402.pdf
2. ^pg 142, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
3. ^"Halves may be easier to sort (by matching the right half of an unsorted face to the left half of a sorted face) than full faces. Or else an asymmetrical full face can be used to report additional variables (Flury & Riedwyl 1981). Bilateral symmetry doubles the space consumed by the design in a graph, without adding new information." pg 97, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
4. ^{{cite web |url=https://thegrid.ai/kgw/end-notes-from-karl-schroeders-degrees-of-freedom/ |title=End notes from Karl Schroeder's "Degrees of Freedom" |author=Karl Schroeder |access-date=2018-03-23}}
* {{cite journal|author=Herman Chernoff |title=The Use of Faces to Represent Points in K-Dimensional Space Graphically |journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association |year=1973 |volume=68 |issue=342 |pages=361–368 |doi=10.2307/2284077 |jstor=2284077 |publisher=American Statistical Association |url=http://www.apprendre-en-ligne.net/mathematica/3.3/chernoff.pdf |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415030406/http://www.apprendre-en-ligne.net/mathematica/3.3/chernoff.pdf |archivedate=2012-04-15 |df= }}- {{cite journal | author=Bernhard Flury and Hans Riedwyl | title=Graphical Representation of Multivariate Data by Means of Asymmetrical Faces | journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association | volume=76 | issue=376 | date=December 1981 | pages=757–765 | publisher=American Statistical Association | doi=10.2307/2287565 | jstor=2287565 | url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1981-flury.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Further reading- "Facial Representation of Multivariate Data", David L. Huff, Vijay Mahajan and William C. Black. The Journal of Marketing, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 53–59.Published by: American Marketing Association
- "FACES-A FORTRAN Program for Generating Chernoff-Type Faces on a Line Printer"{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Danny W. Turner and F. Eugene Tidmore. The American Statistician, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug., 1980), p. 187 Published by: American Statistical Association
- "Representing Points in Many Dimensions by Trees and Castles"{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, B. Kleiner and J. A. Hartigan. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 76, No. 374 (Jun., 1981), pp. 260–269. Published by the American Statistical Association
- Gonick, L. and Smith, W. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper Perennial, p. 212, 1993.
- Moriarity, S. (1979). "Communicating financial information through multidimensional graphics". Journal of Accounting Research 17, 205-224.
- Stock, D. and Watson, C. (1984). "Human judgment accuracy, multidimensional graphics, and humans versus models". Journal of Accounting Research 22, 192-206.
- Information Visualization: Perception for Design (2004), Ware C.
- "The Empathic Visualisation Algorithm: Chernoff Faces Revisited" (218)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140326100742/http://129.96.12.107/confpapers/CRPITV24Lee.pdf "An empirical evaluation of Chernoff faces, star glyphs, and spatial visualizations for binary data"], Michael D. Lee, Rachel E. Reilly, Marcus E. Butavicius. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 142, Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 24
- "Graphical representation of multivariate data using Chernoff faces", Raciborski 2009, The Stata Journal 9, Number 3, pp. 374–387
External links- [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01prof.html "Professor Puts a Face on the Performance of Baseball Managers"] -(The New York Times; Chernoff faces generated from manager performance data)
- "A Critique of Chernoff Faces"
- Java visualization
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070521104703/http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Human%20Engineering.files/Chernoff/Chernoff%20Faces.htm Example of urban living conditions in LA]
- [https://archive.is/20121219203010/http://rgm2.lab.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/func.php?rd_id=aplpack:faces Example and code] for the R statistical software environment
- Example and code for Python using the matplotlib library
- Example code for MATLAB using Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041217153643/http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/educ04/papers/pap5000.pdf "Mapping Quality of Life with Chernoff Faces", Joseph G. Spinelli and Yu Zhou]
- "SUGI 26: Escaping Flatland: Chernoff's Faces Revisited" -(modifying FACES for more aesthetic output)
- "Faces 2.0" -(a Mac OS X screensaver which generates random Chernoff faces)
- NovoSpark Visualizer - an advanced visualization tool that enables qualitative analysis of multidimensional data through the exploration of a graphical image.
- "How to visualize data with cartoonish faces ala Chernoff" (Flowing Data)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916002111/http://blogs.iq.harvard.edu/sss/archives/2006/11/chernoff_faces_1.shtml Baseball faces]
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