CS5631 Reading List: Week 6

Textbook Material
Read the following materials
  • The Validation slides 04-Validation.pdf.
  • The Marks and Channels slides 05-Marks-Channels.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.

Exercise I Resubmission Notes
  • I want to see more hierarchical structures finings
  • It is important to use a Box plot as an overview/summary.
  • You have to state the questions you intend to study. Do not ask your readers/audience to find your questions while "on-the-fly". Questions should be one of the most elements you should state at the very beginning of your report.
  • Always include a study on the relation of various structures. For example,
    • Are there any patterns/similarity of snowfall records over the years?
    • Do the snawfall records in December, January, February, etc. show some patterns/similarity over the years?
    • Try to use heatmap and similar visuals.
    • Also use cluster analysis to find "similarity" and "relations". A hierarchical analysis is even better because in doing so you are able to know the "similarity" relationjship in a hierarchical way. What are your findings?
  • Resumissionfor grading is due on Friday before class.
Note that these were discussed in class and are non-trivial techn
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