Propaganda Map

This is an example of a Propaganda Map. This example illustrates Germany as a weak military state surrounded by strong military states. Looking at the map, the message trying to be conveyed that Germany is militarily weak can be shown by all of the other artillery being aimed at Germany which is empty.

Statistical Map

This is an example of a statistical map. This example is of Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812. A statistical map is very useful in giving a standard statistic of the functional time course over a specified set of periods. According to this graph the lines shown represent the sizes of Napoleon’s army over a given period of time.

Flow Map

This is an example of a Flow Map. This example illustrates how to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich. Flow maps are very useful because they can take a process and visually break it down into a series of steps. This flow map is very thorough in breaking down each step to get to the end process.

Star Plot

This is an example of a Star Plot. This is a Star Plot of MER IDD and Automated Designs. A star plot is a tool used for examining the relative behavior of all variables in a multivariate data set. In this example the center red line represents the most desirable behavior.

Correlation Matrix

This is an example of a Correlation Matrix. This example is a calculated protein correlation matrix for phage T7. According to this graph more similar info is shown in red while dissimilar info is shown in blue. Many methods of multivariate statistical analysis rely on a correlation matrix as the initial data.

Similarity Matrix

This is an example of a Similarity Matrix. This example is of a Genetic Similarity Matrix among 33 cannabis accessions. This type of graph illustrates a matrix of scores which express the similarity between two data points. For these types of graphs higher scores are given to more similar characters while more dissimilar characters are given lower scores.

Stem and Leaf Plots

This is an example of a stem and leaf plot. This example is of new housing starts in the U.S.. This type of graph is useful in presenting quantitative date in a graphical format. A basic stem and leaf plot is composed of two columns separated by a vertical line. The column on the left is the stem and the column on the right is the leaf