10.6084/m9.figshare.9638858.v1 Danli Xu Danli Xu Yong Wang Yong Wang Area-proportional Visualization for Circular Data Taylor & Francis Group 2019 Data visualization Density visualization Circular data Circular plot Histogram Rose diagram Dot plot 2019-08-16 13:43:41 Dataset https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Area-proportional_Visualization_for_Circular_Data/9638858 <p>Data visualization is important for statistical analysis, as it helps convey information efficiently and shed lights on the hidden patterns behind data in a visual context. It is particularly helpful to display circular data in a 2-dimensional space to accommodate its non-linear support space and reveal the underlying circular structure which is otherwise not obvious in 1-dimension. In this paper, we first formally categorize circular plots into two types, either height- or area-proportional, and then describe a new general methodology that can be used to produce circular plots, particularly in the area-proportional manner, which in our opinion is the more appropriate choice. Formulae are given that are fairly simple yet effective to produce various circular plots, such as smooth density curves, histograms, rose diagrams, dot plots, and plots for multi-class data.</p>