{r ggInterval_boxplot,eval=FALSE} ggInterval_boxplot(facedata, plotAll = T) + theme_bw() 
Symbolic data analysis (SDA) is an extension of standard data analysis where symbolic data tables are used as input and symbolic objects are made output as a result. The data units are called symbolic since they are more complex than standard ones, as they not only contain values or categories, but also include internal variation and structure.[1][2]
ggESDA is an extension of ggplot2 for visualizing the symbolic data based on exploratory data analysis (EDA). The package contains many useful graphic techniques functions. Furthermore, the users can also transform the classical data into the symbolic data by the function in this package, which is one of the most important processing in SDA. For the details of the package study, you can see in Jiang (2022).
devtools::install_github("kiangkiangkiang/ggESDA")
The example data is called facedata [3]. It will be the interval form with minimal and maximal, known as interval-valued data. However, most of the symbolic data are not exist at the beginning. Instead, they are usually aggregated by clustering algorithm from a classical data. Thus, we will use classic2sym() function to summarize classical data into symbolic data.
{r library} library(ggESDA)
```{r createData} #aggregated by the variable Species in iris iris_interval_var <- classic2sym(iris, groupby = Species) iris_interval_kmeans <- classic2sym(iris, groupby = “kmeans”) iris_interval_hclust <- classic2sym(iris, groupby = “hclust”)
d <- data.frame(minData = runif(100, 0, 10), maxData = runif(100, 50, 60))
d.sym <- classic2sym(d, groupby = “customize”, minData = d\(minData, maxData = d\)maxData)
#get interval-valued data d.sym$intervalData
## Visualization
With the symbolic data generated, you can start to visualize the data by the following functions:
### ggInterval_index() for visualizing the interval of each observations
<img src = "vignettes/images/ggInterval_index2.png" align = "right"></img>
```{r ggInterval_index,eval=FALSE}
# get the mean value for the hline
m <- mean(facedata$AD)
# build a color mapping for each person
Concepts <- as.factor(rep(c("FRA", "HUS", "INC", "ISA", "JPL", "KHA",
"LOT", "PHI", "ROM"), each = 3))
# start plot
ggInterval_index(facedata, aes(x = AD, fill = Concepts))+
theme_bw() +
scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
geom_segment(x = m, xend = m, y = 0, yend = 27,
lty = 2, col = "red", lwd = 1) +
geom_text(aes(x = m, y = 28), label = "Mean")+
scale_y_continuous(breaks = 1:27,
labels = rownames(facedata))
It can get the preliminary understanding of the interval-valued data.
You can also change fill = and col = to make the plot more visible, and set x or y axis to your variable will rotate the index line in figure.
{r ggInterval_minmax,eval=FALSE} ggInterval_minmax(data = NULL, mapping = aes(NULL), scaleXY = "local", plotAll = F) MMplot is an advanced graphics implemented for symbolic data, or interval-valued data. It presents the interval by the minimum and maximum, and shows the difference between each location of concept in each variable through the 45-degree line. The options scaleXY = "local" will define the axis limit for the comparsion.
{r ggInterval_boxplot,eval=FALSE} ggInterval_boxplot(facedata, plotAll = T) + theme_bw()
The side-by-side boxplot clearly shows the difference of variables’ distribution.
For interval-valued data, not only equidistant-bin histogram but the Non-equidistant-bin histogram will exhibit the distribution. Use the option method, and set by equal-bin or unequal-bin. See the details Jiang (2022).
{r ggInterval_hist,eval=FALSE} equal_bin <- ggInterval_hist(facedata, plotAll = T) + theme_bw() unequal_bin <- ggInterval_hist(facedata, plotAll = T, method = "unequal-bin") + theme_bw() ggarrange(equal_bin, unequal_bin, ncol = 2) 
{r ggInterval_minmax,eval=FALSE} ggInterval_centerRange(data = NULL, mapping = aes(NULL), plotAll = F) Another advanced graphics implemented is called center-range plot, which helps researchers to be able to grasp the relationship between center and range.
A scatter plot of interval-valued data is presented by a rectangle, which is composed of two interval.
As well, ggInterval_scaMatrix is an extension for visualizing all variables relations by using scatter plot at a time.
{r ggInterval_minmax,eval=FALSE} ggInterval_scaMatrix(facedata) 
Another bivariate relationship plot is two-dimension histogram, which is to calculate joint histogram frequency and using matrix visualization to plot.
By the extension, ggInterval_2DhistMatrix is to visualize all variables relations by using 2Dhist plot at a time
{r ggInterval_2DhistMatrix,eval=FALSE} ggInterval_2DhistMatrix(facedata, xBins = 10, yBins = 10, removeZero = T, addFreq = F)
A heatmap type presentation for the interval by the option plotAll and full_strip. There will be two distinct type, column condition and matrix condition. See the details Jiang (2022).
```{r ggInterval_indexImage2,eval=FALSE} p1 <- ggInterval_indexImage(facedata, plotAll = T, column_condition = T, full_strip = T)
p2 <- ggInterval_indexImage(facedata, plotAll = T, column_condition = F, full_strip = T)
ggpubr::ggarrange(p1, p2, ncol = 2)
<img src = "vignettes/images/ggInterval_indexImage2.png" width = "75%"></img>
### ggInterval_radar for visualizing the interval of multivariates
One of the most well-known multivariate visualization techniques is radar plot, or called start plot. We fill the interval area by color mapping, and compare CONCEPTs, surely you can arrange it.
In `ggInterval_radar`, you can add any annotations in figure, including a circle for classify the normalize data position, a real value for the interval or a propotion for modal multi-valued variables.
<img src = "vignettes/images/ggInterval_radar.png" width = "75%"></img>
Surely, we always compare the data in the same figure. Just use the color mapping for the different observations.
<img src = "vignettes/images/ggInterval_radar2.png" width = "75%"></img>
In the field of interval-valued data, the quantile is usually for analysis. We can present the quantiles for each datasets.
<img src = "vignettes/images/ggInterval_radar3.png" width = "75%"></img>
### ggInterval_PCA for dimension reduction in interval data
Two kinds of dimension reduction, see the details <a href="https://github.com/kiangkiangkiang/RESEARCH/blob/master/ggESDA_Jiang%26Wu_20210915.pdf">Jiang (2022)</a>, show in following:
```{r ggInterval_radar2,eval=FALSE}
CONCEPT <- rep(c("FRA", "HUS", "INC", "ISA", "JPL", "KHA",
"LOT", "PHI", "ROM"), each = 3)
p <- ggInterval_PCA(facedata, poly = T,
concepts_group = CONCEPT)
p$ggplotPCA <- p$ggplotPCA + theme(legend.position = "top") +
theme_bw()
p2 <- ggInterval_PCA(facedata, poly = F,
concepts_group = CONCEPT)
p2$ggplotPCA <- p2$ggplotPCA + theme(legend.position = "top") +
theme_bw()
ggpubr::ggarrange(p$ggplotPCA, p2$ggplotPCA, ncol = 2)