Editorial: Publishing Animations, 3D Visualizations, and Movies in<i>JCGS</i>

Levine, Richard A.; Tierney, Luke; Wickham, Hadley; Sampson, Eric; Cook, Dianne; Dyk, David A. van

doi:10.1198/jcgs.2010.191ed

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“…This can be quite helpful, yet is not widely used in our papers or reports. There was an editorial in the JCGS by Levine et al (2010) encouraging authors to take the advantage of animations and movies when publishing electronic papers; the function saveLatex() in the animation package is one tool to fulfill this mission. This function can be used either as a standalone utility to create PDF animations, or in a Sweave document to insert animations dynamically.…”

Section: Pdf Animations Via L a T E Xmentioning

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“…Before we move on, we need to point out that this paper was written in a reproducible document compiled by the knitr package (Xie 2012) with animations created by the animation package automatically; later we will see that we can actually watch the animations in this document with the Adobe Reader. There was an editorial in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS) by Levine, Tierney, Wickham, Sampson, Cook, and van Dyk (2010), encouraging authors to submit supplements containing animations, interactive 3D graphics and movies, and finally "embed these dynamic graphics in the online articles themselves". Apparently the animation package can be a helpful tool for these authors.…”

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animation: AnRPackage for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods

Xie¹

2013

J. Stat. Soft.

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Animated graphs that demonstrate statistical ideas and methods can both attract interest and assist understanding. In this paper we first discuss how animations can be related to some statistical topics such as iterative algorithms, random simulations, (re)sampling methods and dynamic trends, then we describe the approaches that may be used to create animations, and give an overview to the R package animation, including its design, usage and the statistical topics in the package. With the animation package, we can export the animations produced by R into a variety of formats, such as a web page, a GIF animation, a Flash movie, a PDF document, or an MP4/AVI video, so that users can publish the animations fairly easily. The design of this package is flexible enough to be readily incorporated into web applications, e.g., we can generate animations online with Rweb, which means we do not even need R to be installed locally to create animations. We will show examples of the use of animations in teaching statistics and in the presentation of statistical reports using Sweave or knitr. In fact, this paper itself was written with the knitr and animation package, and the animations are embedded in the PDF document, so that readers can watch the animations in real time when they read the paper (the Adobe Reader is required).Animations can add insight and interest to traditional static approaches to teaching statistics and reporting, making statistics a more interesting and appealing subject.

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Section: Pdf Animations Via L a T E Xmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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animation: AnRPackage for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods

Xie¹

2013

J. Stat. Soft.

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“…Previous authors have contributed work that allow users to embed 3D figures directly into PDF documents (Levine et al, 2010; Barnes et al, 2013). While we think this is a useful endeavor for many applications, some of the capabilities described above are lacking.…”

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“…Levine et al (2010) presented a way to embed 3D objects from rgl directly into a Portable Document Format (PDF) document, along with additional applications (Bowman and Shardt, 2009). Though this option is promising, we have found that large images, such as Figure 3 do not render quickly and can lag when interacting with them with on a laptop and sometimes crash before rendering even with moderate amounts of memory (Mac OSX 10.9.2, 16Gb RAM, 2.8GHz Intel i7).…”

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brainR: Interactive 3 and 4D Images of High Resolution Neuroimage Data

Muschelli¹,

Sweeney²,

Crainiceanu³

2014

The R Journal

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We provide software tools for displaying and publishing interactive 3-dimensional (3D) and 4-dimensional (4D) figures to html webpages, with examples of high-resolution brain imaging. Our framework is based in the R statistical software using the rgl package, a 3D graphics library. We build on this package to allow manipulation of figures including rotation and translation, zooming, coloring of brain substructures, adjusting transparency levels, and addition/or removal of brain structures. The need for better visualization tools of ultra high dimensional data is ever present; we are providing a clean, simple, web-based option. We also provide a package (brainR) for users to readily implement these tools.

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“…Richard Levine from San Diego State University began his editorship encouraging authors to take advantage of pdflatex facilities to present embedded movies, animations, and 3D interactive graphics (Ref ; joint effort with Mr. Sampson, past editors Drs. van Dyk and Tierney, and AEs Di Cook and Hadley Wickham).…”

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Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Levine

Sampson

Lee

2014

WIREs Computational Stats

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This article discusses the history and highlights of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS) as the journal approaches its 25th anniversary. A unique venture between three organizations-the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the Interface Foundation of North America (IFNA)-JCGS has come to occupy an important niche in the statistical literature and establish itself as a forward-thinking, high-quality journal in its area. In addition to its contributions to the statistical literature, JCGS has often served as the test-bed for new ideas and methods of publishing and delivery, each of which has presented challenges. But with every obstacle, the three partner organizations have risen to the occasion, supported the journal, and ensured that JCGS not only succeeds but thrives. We will take the reader through an undoubtedly incomplete, but hopefully informative history of JCGS from planning stages to inception and growth, with highlights and innovations presented along the way. The Supporting Information presents further details and data that could not fit within the space restrictions of the focus article itself.

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Editorial: Publishing Animations, 3D Visualizations, and Movies inJCGS

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animation: AnRPackage for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods

animation: AnRPackage for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods

brainR: Interactive 3 and 4D Images of High Resolution Neuroimage Data

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