Visualizing Your Relationships
In first two chapters of this book, you learned how to collect and clean your data, classify it, and prepare it for analysis, and then, you learned about the toolbox of statistical tests that you need to find the relationships that characterize the story of your dataset.
In this chapter, you will learn how to pull all of this together to create a holistic strategy for discovering the story of your data, using univariate and multivariate analysis techniques to discover which variables are independently related and using visualizations to interrogate these relationships in an intelligent, comprehensive, and inspiring way.
A Holistic Strategy to Discover Independent Relationships
So far, the tools that you have in your statistical toolbox have been seen as stand-alone, separate entities, and most statistics textbooks will present them to you in that way.
The truth, though, is that statisticians and experienced analysts use these tools in combination...