Beautiful visualization : [looking at data through the eyes of experts]

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Title:

Author:

Steele, Julie (Julia S.)

ISBN:

9781449379865

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2010

Physical Description:

xvi, 397 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Subtitle from cover.

Contents:

On beauty / Noah Iliinsky -- Once upon a stacked time series / Matthias Shapiro -- Wordle / Jonathan Feinberg -- Color : the Cinderella of data visualization / Michael Driscoll -- Mapping information : redesigning the New York City subway map / Eddie Jabbour, as told to Julie Steele -- Flight patterns : a deep dive / Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump -- Your choices reveal who you are : mining and visualizing social patterns / Valdis Krebs -- Visualizing the U.S. Senate social graph (1991-2009) / Andrew Odewahn -- The big picture : search and discovery / Todd Holloway -- Finding beautiful insights in the chaos of social network visualizations / Adam Perer -- Beautiful history : visualizing Wikipedia -- Turning a table into a tree : growing parallel sets into a purposeful project / Robert Kosara.

Subject Term:

Beautiful visualization

Added Author:

Steele, Julie (Julia S.)

Iliinsky, Noah P. N.

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Summary

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 understanding.

This book examines the methods of two dozen visualization experts who approach their projects from a variety of perspectives -- as artists, designers, commentators, scientists, analysts, statisticians, and more. Together they demonstrate how visualization can help us make sense of the world.

Explore the importance of storytelling with a simple visualization exercise Learn how color conveys information that our brains recognize before we're fully aware of it Discover how the books we buy and the people we associate with reveal clues to our deeper selves Recognize a method to the madness of air travel with a visualization of civilian air traffic Find out how researchers investigate unknown phenomena, from initial sketches to published papers

Contributors include:

Nick Bilton, Michael E. Driscoll, Jonathan Feinberg, Danyel Fisher, Jessica Hagy, Gregor Hochmuth, Todd Holloway, Noah Iliinsky, Eddie Jabbour, Valdean Klump, Aaron Koblin, Robert Kosara, Valdis Krebs, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin et al., Andrew Odewahn, Adam Perer, Anders Persson, Maximilian Schich, Matthias Shapiro, Julie Steele, Moritz Stefaner, Jer Thorp, Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, and Michael Young.