Abstract
Categorization of city facilities such as theaters, hospitals, bars, hotels, department stores, and railway stations, is dealt with in this paper by using 24 fire-safety-related items evaluated by experts in this field. The data was qualitative - e.g., excellent, good, fair, poor, or bad - for each item and represented graphically by colored face graphs for each facitity. Visual discrimination of these faces into groups yielded a good categorization for fire safety evaluation of city facilities and good agreement with the results obtained through numerical cluster analysis.
© 1984 Center for Fire Science and Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
