In this paper I show a variety of ways to represent and think about statistical aspects of CHI and its sister conferences. In particular, I look at author counts, gender analysis, and representations of repeat authors. I use these visualizations to motivate questions about what the preferred state of CHI should be. For example, should we strive for gender equality at CHI, and if so, why, and if...

I. Introduction: Multivariate Statistical Analyses comprise a number of statistical methods/tools that may be applied to several fields of empirical investigations. Most of these methods have three characteristics in common: (i) they presume availability of data set, say Z(nxk) (in n observations and k variables; k ≥ 2, n>k), collected from the field (observationally or experimentally); (ii) th...