seriation (version 1.0-12)

Townships: 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)