A collection of some commonly used and some newly developed methods for the visualization of outcomes in oncology studies include Kaplan-Meier curves, forest plots, funnel plots, violin plots, waterfall plots, spider plots, swimmer plot, heatmaps, circos plots, transit map diagrams and network analysis diagrams (reviewed here). Previous articles in this ...

The R package ‘manipulate’ can be used to create interactive plots in RStudio. Though not as versatile as the ‘shiny’ package, ‘manipulate’ can be used to quickly add interactive elements to standard R plots. This can prove useful for demonstrating statistical concepts, especially to a non-statistician audience. The R code ...

In a previous post, we had ‘mapped’ the culinary diversity in India through a visualization of food consumption patterns. Since then, one of the topics in my to-do list was a visualization of world cuisines. The primary question was similar to that asked of the Indian cuisine: Are cuisines of ...

This month marks the one year anniversary of Design Data Decisions! To celebrate, I decided to do a ‘visual display’ of this blog by creating a word cloud out of articles posted thus far. Using R. This task turned out to be very easy, because of a cool word cloud ...

This post is actually a continuation of the previous post, and is motivated by this article that discusses the graphics and statistical analysis for a two treatment, two period, two sequence (2x2x2) crossover drug interaction study of a new treatment versus the standard. Whereas the previous post was devoted ...

This post was motivated by this article that discusses the graphics and statistical analysis for a two treatment, two period, two sequence (2x2x2) crossover drug interaction study of a new drug versus the standard. I wanted to write about implementing those graphics and the statistical analysis in R. This ...

“Waterfall plots” are nowadays often used in oncology clinical trials for a graphical representation of the quantitative response of each subject to treatment. For an informative article explaining waterfall plots see Understanding Waterfall Plots. In this post, we illustrate the creation of waterfall plots in R. In a typical waterfall ...

Dotplots are useful for the graphical visualization of small to medium-sized datasets. These simple plots provide an overview of how the data is distributed, whilst also showing the individual observations. It is however possible to make the simple dotplots more informative by overlaying them with data summaries and/or smooth ...

The ‘Household Consumption of Various Goods and Services in India’ report from the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Government of India includes survey data on the monthly per capita quantity of consumption of selected food items. The report is available from http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/Admin/publication.aspx (...