CS5631 Reading List: Week 2

Textbook Material
Read the following materials
  • The introduction slides 01-Intro.pdf.
  • The Data Abstraction slides 02-Data.pdf.
  • OLD READING: Continue last week's reading assignment.
  • NEW READING: Read Multivariate Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates by Stephen Few for more information on parallel coordinates. Alfred Inselberg even wrote a very interesting book on parallel coordinates: Alfred Inselberg, Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry and Its Applications, Springer, 2009. You should be able to access the online version of this book via the Library.

Other Information
  • The original paper discussing the Berkeley admission bias issue can be found in the common directory with filename Bickel-Sex-Bias-in-Graduate-Admission-Berkeley.pdf.
  • The data used in class for Mosaic plots can be found in a paper by Michael Friendly. The original paper is also in the common directory with filename Friendly-Mosaic-Displays-for-Multi-Way-Contingency-Tables.pdf