Chernoff Face

A way to display  variables on a two-dimensional surface. For instance, let  be eyebrow slant,  be eye size,  be nose length, etc. The above figures show faces produced using 10 characteristics--head eccentricity, eye size, eye spacing, eye eccentricity, pupil size, eyebrow slant, nose size, mouth shape, mouth size, and mouth opening)--each assigned one of 10 possible values, generated using the Wolfram Language.

REFERENCES:

Gonick, L. and Smith, W. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. New York: Harper Perennial, p. 212, 1993.