Obtain one of the data sets available at the UCI Machine Learning Repository and apply as many of the
different visualization techniques described in the chapter as possible. The bibliographic notes and book
Web site provide pointers to visualization software.
Identify at least two advantages and two disadvantages of using color to visually represent information.
Describe one advantage and one disadvantage of a stem and leaf plot with respect to a standard
histogram.
How might you address the problem that a histogram depends on the number and location of the bins?
Describe how a box plot can give information about whether the value of an attribute is symmetrically
distributed. What can you say about the symmetry of the distributions of the attributes shown in Figure
3.11?