Mondrian is a general-purpose statistical data-visualization system, for
interactive data visualization.
All plots in Mondrian are fully linked, and offer various interactions and queries. Any case selected in a plot in Mondrian is highlighted in all other plots.
Currently implemented plots comprise Mosaic Plot, Scatterplots and SPLOM, Maps, Barcharts, Histograms, Missing Value Plot, Parallel Coordinates/Boxplots and Boxplots y by x.
Mondrian works with data in standard tab-delimited or comma-separated ASCII files and can load data from
R workspaces. There is basic support for working directly on data in databases.
Mondrian links to R and offers statistical procedures like interactive
density estimation,
scatterplot smoothers,
multidimensional scaling (MDS) and
principal component analysis (PCA).
Overview
Starting in 1997, Mondrian was first developed with a focus on visualization techniques for
categorical data and enhanced selection techniques. Over the years, a complete suite of visualizations for univariate and multivariate data measured on any scale were added. The link to R offers well tested statistical procedures, which integrate seamlessly into the interactive graphics. Today, even geographical data is supported with highly interactive maps.
Mondrian details
Last stable and beta versions, help and documentations are available on the developer web site, Martin Theus
Supported data sources
Mondrian works on plain text files with tab-separated columns with variable header, as exported from
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android and iOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro (comp ...
as ".txt". If the Rserve link and R are present, Mondrian also reads data directly from R workspace files (.RData files).
Visualizations
* 1-d:
Barchart,
Spineplot,
Histogram,
Spinogram,
Boxplot
In descriptive statistics, a box plot or boxplot is a method for graphically demonstrating the locality, spread and skewness groups of numerical data through their quartiles. In addition to the box on a box plot, there can be lines (which are cal ...
* 2-d:
Scatterplot,
Boxplot y by x
* High-D:
** Multivariate continuous:
Scatterplot matrix
A scatter plot (also called a scatterplot, scatter graph, scatter chart, scattergram, or scatter diagram) is a type of plot or mathematical diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values for typically two variables for a set of data ...
,
Parallel coordinates
** Multivariate categorical:
Mosaic plot (see also
Treemapping)
* Geographical:
Map
* Special:
missing value plot
Interaction techniques
Mondrian supports Query, Select, and Modify.
See also
*
Data visualization
*
GGobi
GGobi is a free statistical software tool for interactive data visualization. GGobi allows extensive exploration of the data with Interactive dynamic graphics. It is also a tool for looking at multivariate data. R can be used in sync with ...
References
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Further reading
* Theus, M. (2002). ''Interactive Data Visualization using Mondrian'', in Journal of Statistical Software 7 (11): 1–9.
* Theus, M. and Urbanek, S. (2008). ''Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis: Principles and Examples'' (Computer Science and Data Analysis), Chapman & Hall / CRC.
External links
Mondrian: Graphical Data Analysis Software
Homepage for the book “Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis – Principles and Examples”- the book is heavily based on Mondrian
theusrus- the homepage of Martin Theus
Free plotting software
Free statistical software
Piet Mondrian
Plotting software