seriation (version 1.5.6)

Townships: Bertin's Characteristics of Townships

Description

This data contains nine characteristics for 16 townships. The data set was used by Bertin (1981) to illustrate that the conciseness of presentation can be improved by seriating the rows and columns.

Format

A matrix with 16 0-1 variables (columns) indicating the presence (1) or absence (0) of characteristics of townships (rows).

Author

Michael Hahsler

References

Bertin, J. (1981): Graphics and Graphic Information Processing. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter.

See Also

Other data: Chameleon, Irish, Munsingen, SupremeCourt, Wood, Zoo, create_lines_data(), is.robinson()

Examples

data("Townships")

## original data
pimage(Townships)
criterion(Townships)

## seriated data using an improved Bond-Energy Algorithm
order <- seriate(Townships, method = "BEA_TSP")
pimage(Townships, order)
criterion(Townships, order)