cities {psych} | R Documentation |
Airline distances between 11 US cities may be used as an example for multidimensional scaling or cluster analysis.
data(cities)
A data frame with 11 observations on the following 11 variables.
ATL
BOS
ORD
DCA
DEN
LAX
MIA
JFK
SEA
SFO
MSY
An 11 x11 matrix of distances between major US airports. This is a useful demonstration of multiple dimensional scaling.
city.location is a dataframe of longitude and latitude for those cities.
Note that the 2 dimensional MDS solution does not perfectly capture the data from these city distances. Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. are located slightly too far west, and Seattle and LA are slightly too far south.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distance.html
data(cities) city.location[,1] <- -city.location[,1] if(require(maps)) {map("usa") title("MultiDimensional Scaling of US cities") points(city.location)} else {plot(city.location, xlab="Dimension 1", ylab="Dimension 2",main ="multidimensional scaling of US cities")} city.loc <- cmdscale(cities, k=2) #ask for a 2 dimensional solution round(city.loc,0) city.loc <- -city.loc city.loc <- rescale(city.loc,mean(city.location),sd(city.location)) points(city.loc,type="n") text(city.loc,labels=names(cities))