data-viz

Make a nice-looking scatter plot matrix

Those who have read my papers (assumed there are) may have noticed I seem to obssessed with the small multiple plots, as they appeared in almost all my papers. I get accquited with the small multiple plots through Edward Tufte’s book. About the data E G phaseAngleB logEta temp fc Va Vbeff p200 p4 p38 p34 3.

Where to throw your papers to?

Journal Ranking by Impact Factor This post is for fast checking my favorite journals for paper submission. Civil Engineering Transportation Green & Sustainable Journals Papers in JCR Q1 and Q2 Top 20 journals in all disciplines. Full Journal Title Journal Impact Factor JCR Ca-A Cancer Journal For Clinicians 223.679 Q1 Nature Reviews Materials 74.449 Q1 New England Journal Of Medicine 70.

What to do? Where to go? An analysis of papers published on pavement and asphalt.

First, why just focus on the keywords of asphalt and pavement? Because these are the areas I am currently involved. So, this post is extremely biased and please take it for fun. Also, sorry to folks in the world of cement, concrete, and others. I am always courious about that if we can use some data processing techniques in assisting researchers to obtain the hottest topics in her areas of interests.

Are you using the right plot for you data? A not-so exhaustive critique.

Disclaimer The contents are for communication only, the images included in this blog post are by no means to offend anyone. If you are the authors of some of the contents and are uncomfortable with the critique, I am open to academic discussion and happy to withdraw any of contents upon request. Motivation I have been conceiving this for a long time, mainly for helping myself understand and improving my own data visualization skills.

Do you really need a plot with a second axis?

In her book, Story telling with data, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic states Sometimes it’s useful to be able to plot data that is in entirely different units against the same x‐axis. This often gives rise to the secondary y‐axis: another vertical axis on the right‐hand side of the graph. When interpreting Fig. 1, it takes some time and reading to understand which data should be read against which axis. Because of this, you should avoid the use of a secondary or right‐hand y‐axis.