num_pages: 384
description: Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere complete with user interaction animation and more.How do the 3.1 billion A C G and T letters of the human genome compare to those of a chimp or a mouse? What do the paths that millions of visitors take through a web site look like? With Visualizing Data  you learn how to answer complex questions like these with thoroughly interactive displays. We're not talking about cookie-cutter charts and graphs. This book teaches you how to design entire interfaces around large complex data sets with the help of a powerful new design and prototyping tool called Processing.Used by many researchers and companies to convey specific data in a clear and understandable manner the Processing beta is available free. With this tool and Visualizing Data as a guide you'll learn basic visualization principles how to choose the right kind of display for your purposes and how to provide interactive features that will bring users to your site over and over. This book teaches The book does not provide ready-made visualizations that can be plugged into any data set. Instead with chapters divided by types of data rather than types of display you'll learn how each visualization conveys the unique properties of the data it represents -- why the data was collected what's interesting about it and what stories it can tell. Visualizing Data teaches you how to answer questions not simply display information.
language: English
title: Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
publisher: O'Reilly Media