CS5631 Reading List: Week 3

Textbook Material
Read the following materials
  • The Data Abstraction slides 02-Data.pdf.
  • The Task Abstraction slides 03-Task.pdf.
  • Read PART I: GRAPHICAL PRACTICE of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte. The second edition is missing in our library, and only the first edition is available. This book is reserved for this course. Please ask the help desk for this book.
  • 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 can access the online version of this book via the Library.
  • These are REQUIRED reading. Please do not take it lightly.

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