Week 1

Bateman, S., Mandryk, R. L., Gutwin, C., Genest, A., McDine, D., & Brooks, C. (2010, April). Useful Junk?: The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2573-2582). ACM.

Cairo, A. (2013). The functional art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization . Berkley, CA: New Riders.

Cairo, A. (2013). The truthful art: Data charts and maps for communication . Berkley, CA: New Riders.

Cairo, A. (2015). Graphics lies, misleading visuals . In New Challenges for Data Design (pp. 103-116). Springer London. Retrieved February 17, 2017.

“Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812.” Retrieved February 17, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard#/media/File:Minard.png

Dark Horse Analytics. Retrieved February 17, 2017, from http://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/

“Diamonds Were a Girl’s Best Friend” | Nigel Holmes in “A Gem That Lost Its Luster,” Time 120, no. 9 (August 30, 1982) Retrieved February 17, 2017 from http://visualoop.com/media/2015/03/Diamonds-Were-a-Girls-Best-Friend.jpg

Google Finance. Retrieved February 17, 2017 from https://www.google.com/finance?ei=L0IyWJmeHdrEjAGluK24DA#stockscreener

Ho, A. D., Reich, J., Nesterko, S., Seaton, D. T., Mullaney, T., Waldo, J., & Chuang, I. (2014). HarvardX and MITx: The first year of open online courses (HarvardX and MITx Working Paper No. 1). Retrieved February 17, 2017 from https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2381263 for digital copy. (Figure 13, p 31)

Tufte, E. R. (1985). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information . Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Twitter. Retrieved February 17, 2017 from twitter.com

Week 2

Hunter, J., & Droettboom, M. (2012). matplotlib in A. Brown (Ed.), The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume II: Structure, Scale, and a Few More Fearless Hacks (Vol. 2). lulu.com ( Licensed under CC )

Rougier NP, Droettboom M, Bourne PE (2014) Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures . PLoS Comput Biol 10(9): e1003833. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833

Week 3

Australian Transport Safety Bureau (2015). MH370 – Definition of Underwater Search Areas (Report). Retrieved February 17, 2017 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map#/media/File:MH370_location_probability_heat_map_per_DST_Group_analysis.jpg

He, K., & Meeden, G. (1997). Selecting the Number of Bins in a Histogram: A Decision Theoretic Approach . Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference , 61(1), 49-59.

Ferreira, N., Fisher, D., & Konig, A. C. (2014, April). Sample-oriented task-driven visualizations: allowing users to make better, more confident decisions . In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 571-580). ACM.

“Sample-Oriented Task-Drive Visualizations: Allowing Users to Make Better, More Confident Decision.” Retrieved February 17, 2017 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7GAs-va-Q

Week 4

Spurious Correlations. Retrieved from February 17, 2017 from http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

This course was originally launched on 3/6/2017.