Chernoff Faces

The stuff in this post at the Social Science Statistics Blog is seriously cool. Data representation in faces (in the post, the data represented is baseball stats -- go Braves!). From the post:

Chernoff faces are a method introduced by Herman Chernoff (Prof Emeritus of Applied Math at MIT and of Statistics at Harvard) in 1971 that allows one to convert multivariate data to cartoon faces, the features of which are controlled by the variable values.

Go read it.

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i am student of software engineering.i want to implement my final project by using chernoff faces in dot net...can u send me the algo of chern off faces

By rabia malik (not verified) on 19 Feb 2008 #permalink