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Book order 2003

The Academic Bookstore will sell the course books at a reduced rate to the participants of this course.

List of students who wish to buy the books will be collected during the 10 September 2003 and 17 September 2003 lectures. The number of orders will then be delivered to the bookstore. The books will take about two weeks to arrive after which the students can fetch the books they ordered from the Academic Bookstore (from Helsinki, Tapiola or Itäkeskus) and pay them.

The Academic Bookstore will email me as the books arrive. I will forward the email to all who have ordered books. Should you have any questions on arrival of books etc. you can contact the Bookstore directly (opiskelijat@akateeminen.com, mention T-61.271).

The prices are as follows:

Edward R. Tufte, The visual display of quantitative information, Graphics Press (1983). 0-9613921-0-X	49 euros
Colin Ware, Information visualization: perception for design, Academic Press (2000). 1-55860-511-8	62 euros
Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Schneiderman, Readings in information visualization: using vision to think, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. (1999). 1-55860-533-9	74 euros

What to buy, if anything?

These books are also available for reading and overnight loan from the T library (T Kur). You can take a look at the library copies before deciding whether to buy a copy yourself.

If you want to buy only one book for the course I would recommend the Ware's book. It is a good book on scientific approach to visualization, and it will cover about a half of the course.

Tufte's book covers about quarter of the course. Unlike Ware's book, it can be read through quite fast, although really understanding the content will take considerably longer. Tufte's book is a classic, and if you are serious on visualization, this book should appear in your bookshelf. :)

Card's book is a collection of articles, with good introductions. Some of the articles are excellent, others are not. You should take a look at the library copy and decide whether you want to pay for this article collection or not.