Abstract
This chapter discusses multivariate display and discusses a few methods that are either exemplary of a class of others or are sufficiently useful and unique to warrant inclusion. Polygon plots as well as other sorts of iconic displays based upon nonmetaphorical icons are useful for the qualitative conveyance of information and are made more useful if the icons are displayed in a position that is meaningful. Trees are the only display methods that do a good job at depicting the covariance structure among the variables. A powerful use of a graphic display is to present information in a nonlinear way. Thus, the exploded diagrams of automobile transmissions show clearly as to which pieces go where and indicate clearly as to which orders of assembly are possible and which are not. The complex charts of population, often found in statistical atlases, provide many stories of immigration trends.
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