AMADO-online,

A simple, multilingual, and free app to turn any statistical table into an easy-to-read graph.

https://paris-timemachine.huma-num.fr/amado/

Nguyen-Khang PHAM, Can Tho University, College of Information & Communication Technology, Vietnam.
Jean-Hugues CHAUCHAT, Université de Lyon, Laboratoire ERIC.
Michel TOUILLOUX, Euroêka Marketing Conseil, Lyon. Alban RISSON, société Alson.
contact: jean-hugues.chauchat@univ-lyon2.fr

Example 1: Manufacturing control

The table represents the measurements on 22 quality monitoring variables (A to V) of 100 industrial
parts, in the order of production.
File / Open / BIELLE04.txt

Characteristics of the 22 variables Min Max

Mean 2,571 199,206
Standard deviation 0,014 0,233
Coefficient of variation 0,0004 0,0099
The 22 variables being very heterogeneous, we choose the Format / Scale by Row option. Thus, the
maximum height of the rectangles is the same in all rows, and the graph becomes more readable.
To obtain the representation of each number by a blue rectangle if its value is higher than the
average of the variable, and white if not, we choose the Format / Mode 3.

We can see that measures C, K, L, M and N exceed the averages for the suite of parts 9 to 22.
→ It is now clear that the process is not under control.

Note: This graphical approach implies replacing the numerical variables by binary 0/1 variables. We
lose some information, and some test power, but on the other hand we get a quick visual test.

Phan N.K., Chauchat J.H., Touilloux M., Risson A. AMADO-Online, a simple, multilingual, and free app to turn any statistical table into an
easy-to-read graph. ENBIS 2021 Spring Meeting; 2021 May 17-18.
Example 2: Creation or takeover of small businesses, by level of education
A survey was carried out among a representative sample of managers of companies with less than 11
employees in the Rhône-Alpes region (6,000,000 inhabitants). The following table cross-references
their level of education with the type of entrepreneurship (creation or takeover).
The level of education is classified as VI (leaving school at the end of compulsory education), V (high
school diploma, vocational training, or technical school certificate), IV (first year of university), III
(higher technician diploma), II (Bachelor degree), I (Master or PhD).
The first table is obtained by Copy/Paste of the table in AMADO-online, or by opening the
corresponding TXT file: File / Open.

Level of education of the VI V IV III I or II

2330 entrepreneurs surveyed
Has created the company 169 662 277 135 76

Took over the company 72 462 278 119 80

The first graph is obtained by:

Copy/Paste of the table in AMADO-online,
Format / Row Labels / Full text.

This 1st graph, which is not very

informative, shows the raw values.
It shows mainly that level V is the most
numerous among these entrepreneurs.

The 2nd graph table is obtained by:

Process / Compute Column Percentages,
Format / Weight Width of Columns.

It shows the main information contained in

the table: levels V and VI (vocational
training or technical school certificate) have
more often created their own business,
whereas levels I to IV (higher technical
diploma or university degree) have more
often taken over an existing business, while
keeping the information on the unequal
distribution of the levels of education
among these entrepreneurs.

Phan N.K., Chauchat J.H., Touilloux M., Risson A. AMADO-Online, a simple, multilingual, and free app to turn any statistical table into an
easy-to-read graph. ENBIS 2021 Spring Meeting; 2021 May 17-18.
Example 3: Territorial marketing.
Searching for blocks in a square matrix of co- occurrence.
In order to attract companies to their territories, many local authorities market possible sites for
the establishment of activities. These sites have various names: industrial zone, technology park, etc.
To help narrow down the 'range' of possible locations, 72 business leaders were asked to group 49
cards with the names of sites proposed by different French cities into piles, each pile containing the
names that appeared to be synonymous. The matrix gives the number of times two places were
grouped together. This creates a similarity matrix.

The graph is obtained by:

Copy/Paste of the table from a spreadsheet to AMADO-online, or by opening the corresponding TXT
file: File / Open / EN-Territorial_Marketing.TXT
Format / Row Labels / Full text
Format / Column Labels / 20
Format / Value Format / None

Then, to find the blocks of names that are often classified together (that are similar in the sense of
this matrix):
Process / Frequency Data or 0/1 / Hierarchical Clustering

To make the highlighted blocks more visible, vertical and horizontal dividers are inserted. For each
one, click on the column (respectively the row) that follows the place where you want to insert it
and:
Process / Insert Separator

Now we do not need to see the hierarchical clustering trees anymore:

Process / Remove Trees

See the graph on the next page.

Phan N.K., Chauchat J.H., Touilloux M., Risson A. AMADO-Online, a simple, multilingual, and free app to turn any statistical table into an
easy-to-read graph. ENBIS 2021 Spring Meeting; 2021 May 17-18.
On the graph obtained by AMADO-online, we can clearly see:
 the groups of names considered synonymous by many entrepreneurs,
 as well as the degree of homogeneity of each group.
For example, we see that many entrepreneurs have considered as synonyms:
- all names containing the roots "techno" or "scientific",
- the 3 names: "Jardin d'entreprises", "Pépinière d'entreprises" and "Ruche d'entreprises" ("business
garden", "Business nursery", "Business beehive"),
- or, at the bottom right of the graph: "Atelier relais" and "Usine relais".
The interviewees consulted were more divided as to the synonymy of the names brought together by
the algorithm in the same cluster.
The graph produced by AMADO-online also allows us to see that separate clusters do have certain
similarities, for example {"Jardin d'entreprises", "Pépinière d'entreprises" and "Ruche d'entreprises"}
& {“Couveuse" and “Incubateur" (“hatchery" and "incubator")}.

Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank Jean Dumais for his invaluable advice in the
writing of this work.

Phan N.K., Chauchat J.H., Touilloux M., Risson A. AMADO-Online, a simple, multilingual, and free app to turn any statistical table into an
easy-to-read graph. ENBIS 2021 Spring Meeting; 2021 May 17-18.