Environment for creative processing of text and numerical data

Survo Graphics Gallery

The gallery presents a large collection of Survo graphs with their work schemes. Hence, in addition to looking at the graphs, it is possible to see how they are actually created in Survo. The gallery also includes a few graphs that may look a bit complicated. However, there is no need to be afraid of them, as the following quote explains:

Survo has a picturial language of its own. This language is based on certain basic types of graphs. The picturial language permits free combinations and overlays of basic graph types. Each graphical component can be enhanced and decorated by colors and other graphical and textual attributes in many ways. This approach enables making of very complicated pictures. Many people - seeing the final result only - are afraid that this must be a difficult task. Let's however pretend that there are no complicated things. If something looks complicated, it is merely combination of simple things. Of course, some skills are needed in order to reverse the process and see in each case what are those simple components forming the final picture. In order to learn such skills it is helpful to study ready-made pictures and compare them to the corresponding Survo plotting schemes (PLOT operations with various specifications). It is also worthwhile to make various experiments by modifying existing plotting schemes - even by trial and error.

S.Mustonen (1996): Survo ja minä (Survo and I), p. 173

Index and catalog

The graphs in the gallery may be browsed in a free order. Following the links of the graph pages eventually takes the whole tour through the gallery. The index below is sorted according to the graph type. You may also take a look at the gallery by browsing the catalog, which includes the thumbnails of all graphs. They are also links to the corresponding pages, where you can find how the graphs are made.

Bar and pie charts

• Bar and pie chart types
• Bar chart of private gross fixed capital formation
• Bar chart of Finnish books published in 1983-1988
• Pie charts demonstrating Survo PostScript shadings
• Bar chart and a pie chart of males by age group in Nordic countries
• Plotting a matrix file of binomial coefficients as a multiple bar chart
• Mixture of two normal distributions
• Bar chart of disk space usage
• Pie chart of population in Nordic countries
• Bar chart of several groups
• Mean-deviation plots

Histograms and box plots

• Histogram of mean temperature in July, Helsinki 1844-1978
• Random sample from a bivariate normal distribution
• Mixture of two normal distributions
• Box plot of birthrate in Finnish provinces

Scatter diagrams

• Normal probability plot of rainfall in Helsinki
• Scatter plot of simulated data with contour ellipses and a trend line
• Random sample from a bivariate normal distribution
• Generalized scatter plot of towns and communes in Finland
• Draftsman's display (scatter plot matrix) of largest Finnish towns and communes
• Rotated factor matrix as a scatter plot
• 999 random points as a scatter plot
• Influence curves for the correlation coefficient
• Discriminant space of three iris species with contour ellipses
• Grouped scatterplot matrix of the Iris data
• Enhanced scatter plot of Finnish communes
• Mean temperature and rainfall on probit scale
• Mixture of bivariate normal distributions

Time series diagrams

• Time series diagram of mean temperature in July, Helsinki 1844-1978
• Time series diagram of consumption of alcoholic beverages in Finland
• Time series of monthly temperature in Helsinki 1829-2000
• Time series diagrams of consumption of spirits and wines in Finland 1967-1991

Diagrams related to statistical methods

• Rotated factor matrix as a scatter plot
• Discriminant space of three iris species with contour ellipses
• Correspondence analysis diagram (Fisher's example 1940)
• Multiple correspondence analysis of Finland
• Diagram of hierarchical cluster analysis (dendrogram)
• Discriminant analysis of Finland

Statistical special diagrams

• Matrix plot of consumption of various beverages in 12 European countries
• Draftsman's display (scatter plot matrix) of largest Finnish towns and communes
• Multivariate diagrams; Chernoff's faces
• Multivariate diagrams; Andrews' function plots
• Multivariate diagrams; Andrews' function plots in polar coordinates
• Multivariate diagrams; profile symbol plot
• Multivariate diagrams; star symbol plot
• Influence curves for the correlation coefficient
• Matrix plot of Finnish towns and communes
• Central limit theorem

Curves and families of curves

• Musical intervals in different temperaments
• Olympic rings
• Contour plot, front cover of the Survo User Guide (1992)
• Dissonance function for accuracies c=2,3,4,5
• Plotting curves with the coordinate axes relocated
• Plotting curves and combining pictures
• Steiner circles
• Normal distribution as a limit of t distributions
• Sample from a uniform distribution
• Thing
• Carpet
• Thing 2
• "Origin of species"
• Spiral
• From circle to square
• Four fish in an aquarium
• Picture writing
• Chord figure
• Density of standard normal distribution

Other graphs

• Placing and rotating text
• Plotting and filling polylines
• Division of the plotting area into different regions
• Bar and pie chart types
• Marker types
• Connecting points with lines in various ways
• Line types
• Measurement model and measurement scale
• 2-dimensional projections of a 4-dimensional cube
• Proof of the Pythagoras' theorem
• Connecting points with lines
• Graph paper and contour ellipses

Imagination

The above selection of graphs is not in any case a perfect representation of the graphical possibilities in Survo. The basic graph types may be mixed freely, each detail be adjusted sharply, and the graphs may be created as combinations of arbitrary many pictures. It means that the imagination of the user is the only thing that might set any limits for the kind of graphs that can be plotted in Survo.