CS5631 Reading List: Week 4

Textbook Material
Read the following materials
  • The Data Abstraction slides 02-Data.pdf.
  • The Task Abstraction slides 03-Task.pdf.
  • Chapter 4 to Chapter 6 of How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. This should be an easy and quick read, but you will learn something for sure.
  • Read Chapter 4 to Chapter 6 in PART II: Theory of Data Graphics of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte.
  • 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