Townships {seriation}R Documentation

Bertin's Characteristics and Townships Data Set

Description

This data set was used to illustrate that the conciseness of presentation can be improved by seriating the rows and columns.

Usage

data("Townships")

Format

A matrix with 16 0-1 variables (columns) indicating the presence (1) or absence (0) of characteristics of townships (rows).

References

Bertin, J. (1981): Graphics and Graphic Information Processing. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter.

Examples

data("Townships")

## original data
pimage(Townships)
criterion(Townships)


## seriated data
order <- seriate(Townships, method = "BEA", control = list(rep = 5))
pimage(Townships, order)
criterion(Townships, order)


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