Displaying Time Series, Spatial, and Space-Time Data with R

Chapter 4

Time as a Conditioning or Grouping Variable

In Section 3.1 we learned to display the time evolution of multiple time series with different scales. But, what if instead of displaying the time evolution we want to confront the variables between them? Section 4.1 proposes the scatterplot matrix solution with time as a grouping variable. Section 4.2 uses an enhanced scatterplot with time as a conditioning variable. Section 4.1.1 includes a digression about the hexagonal binning for large datasets.

4.1 Scatterplot Matrix: Time as a Grouping Variable

The scatterplot matrices are based on the technique of small multiples (Tufte 1990): small, thumbnail-sized representations of multiple images displayed all at once, which allows the reader to ...