Beautiful Visualization
Subtitle: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
By: edited by Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sebastopol, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781449379865
Subjects: Information visualization
Description: 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
Notes: Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On beauty / Noah Iliinsky; title: Once upon a stacked time series / Matthias Shapiro; title: Wordle / Jonathan Feinberg; title: Color : the Cinderella of data visualization / Michael Driscoll; title: Mapping information : redesigning the New York City subway map / Eddie Jabbour, as told to Julie Steele; title: Flight patterns : a deep dive / Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump; title: Your choices reveal who you are : mining and visualizing social patterns / Valdis Krebs; title: Visualizing the U.S. Senate social graph (1991-2009) / Andrew Odewahn; title: The big picture : search and discovery / Todd Holloway; title: Finding beautiful insights in the chaos of social network visualizations / Adam Perer; title: Beautiful history : visualizing Wikipedia; title: Turning a table into a tree : growing parallel sets into a purposeful project / Robert Kosara; title: The design of "X" by "Y" / Moritz Stefaner; title: Revealing matrices / Maximilian Schich; title: The was 1994: data exploration with the NYTimes Article Search API / Jer Thorp; title: A day in the life of the New York TImes / Michael Young and Nick Bilton; title: Immersed in unfolding complex systems / Lance Putnam, ... [et al.]; title: Postmortem visualization: the real gold standard / Anders Persson; title: Animation for visualization: opportunities and  drawbacks / Danyel Fisher; title: Visualization: indexed / Jessica Hagy.