RE: data display

Bob Ashcroft (cytomat@netcore.com.au)
Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:18:38 +1000

Albert's point can be amplified to the larger question:

Are we all looking for a way of doing things that discounts critical thought and numerate cynicism?

Ultimately, we all live or die on numbers, and we all need to invent ways of cross-checking them within any dataset.

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Donnenberg, Albert [SMTP:donnenbergad@msx.upmc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 6:41 AM
To: Cytometry Mailing List
Subject: RE: data display

Dot plot or probability plots, what do you do when compensation forces a
significant number of events into the first channel? Dot plots don't
get any blacker than black, some contour algorithms truncate the first
channel of data!

In the 4-color world it is sometimes impossible to keep events out of
the gutter when PMTs are balanced and compensation is optimized.

Albert D. Donnenberg, Ph.D.