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Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts (Theory In Practice)
Visualization is the graphic presentation of data -- portrayals meant to reveal complex information at a glance. Think of the familiar map of the New York City subway system, or a diagram of the human brain. Successful visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understand...more
Paperback, Illustrated Edition, 416 pages
Published
June 28th 2010
by O'Reilly Media
(first published April 23rd 2010)
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This O'Reilly book starts off with a discussion of "What is Beauty?"
A question + visualization data + context = a story.
An example of beautiful visualization is Wordle, the textual analysis tool. The visualization of social patterns through social graphs is another example, such as visualizing Wikipedia's complex structures of document edit history. Virtual autopsies!
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A question + visualization data + context = a story.
An example of beautiful visualization is Wordle, the textual analysis tool. The visualization of social patterns through social graphs is another example, such as visualizing Wikipedia's complex structures of document edit history. Virtual autopsies!
The Netflix Prize is a million dollar reward for anyone who could improve the movie rental company's recommendation algorithm by 1...more
The book had some very cool visualizations. It left me a little unsatisfied...I guess what I really wanted was some code to get started, but instead most chapters only vaguely discussed how to make their visualization. But if you're just looking for cool visualizations, this is the book for you! (minus the last two or three chapters)
Also, the book is quite expensive as it's full color throughout. Paper copy, available for borrowing.
Also, the book is quite expensive as it's full color throughout. Paper copy, available for borrowing.
A series of chapters tackling diverse topics of visualization. Some talk about idea, some are more hands on, some are theoretical, some teach you the process and some I don't understand well. My favor chapters include visualizing Wikipedia, a chapter on the full creative and analytic journey to create a visualization for the database of Prix Ars Electronica (The Design of X by Y), and also the visualization idea of Parallel Set.
One thing is I learned is data visualization is inseparable from da...more
One thing is I learned is data visualization is inseparable from da...more
good primer on data pattern simplification from experts. more technique practicals would have been great. enjoyed social network analysis bits
A collection of short essays and case studies by two dozen data visualisation experts; it really is beautiful. Not instructional like Stephen Few's Now You See It, but inspiring and great for ideas on where and how you can apply data viz. My favourite has to be flight paths as 3D geospatial data viz is a particular interest of mine, and they're just so pretty!
Also, all author royalties go to Architecture for Humanity, which is really cool.
Also, all author royalties go to Architecture for Humanity, which is really cool.
intro/basic info, and comprised of hyper-specific stories.
Good book interesting themes, especially a chapter about postmortem visualization: never thought that CSI and visualization can be together.
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