Visualization Schemes

[iqis]

We would need some examples of commonly applicable visualizations, within a subject or across a study.

[wendtke]

Do you have an example from a different package or application, so I can get a sense of what might be possible and unique to psyphr? ggplot2 and other tools can get most researchers part of the way there, but I think there's room for us to create novel visualization techniques, particularly time series and growth curve approaches, within psyphr.

[iqis]

Hmm.... I do not, for the moment, have a very comparable example.

I think we might not need to invent any visualization techniques, but rather make it more convenient for the user.

For example, if most researchers usually makes a time series of the ...say.... heart beat rate when they get their hands on the data, and want to get a glance of what it's like, we can build a function to provide a ggplot plot for that; the user does not have to write similar codes each time, but only needs to call a function with his own data set as the argument; he can then add or modify elements as needed, or simply look at it as it is.

[iqis]

If the user is empowered to make necessary visualizations quickly and effortlessly, his time can be better spent at analyzing the results, as he can rapidly create visualizations for all of his subjects using a window function.

[wendtke]

Yes, definitely. I am actually working this week and next on exploring, plotting, and analyzing our RSA data for a conference poster. That might give me some ideas of useful visualization functions for psyphr. I will let you know how it goes. Some of my code might end being useful for these psyphr functions.

[wendtke]

Send visualization examples (e.g., average RSA per task for poster) -- gist

[wendtke]

I uploaded example code and output to the Google Drive.