Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

by Toby Segaran (Editor), Jeff Hammerbacher (Editor)

Other authors: Lukas Biewald (Contributor), Ben Blackburne (Contributor), Jean-Claude Bradley (Contributor), Brian F. Cooper (Contributor), Jason Dykes (Contributor) — 34 more, Jonathan Follett (Contributor), Andrew Gelman (Contributor), Yair Ghitza (Contributor), Rajarshi Guha (Contributor), Alon Halevy (Contributor), Jeff Hammerbacher (Contributor), Jeffrey Heer (Contributor), Matthew Holm (Contributor), J. M. Hughes (Contributor), Jeff Jonas (Contributor), Jonathan P. Kastellec (Contributor), Valdean Klump (Contributor), Aaron Koblin (Contributor), Coco Krumme (Contributor), Andrew Lang (Contributor), Pierre Lindenbaum (Contributor), Jayant Madhaven (Contributor), Michal Migurski (Contributor), Cameron Neylon (Contributor), Peter Norvig (Contributor), Brendan O'Connor (Contributor), David Poole (Contributor), Raghu Ramakrishnan (Contributor), Toby Segaran (Contributor), Lisa Sokol (Contributor), Utkarsh Srivastava (Contributor), Deborah F. Swayne (Contributor), Jud Valeski (Contributor), Hadley Wickham (Contributor), Antony Williams (Contributor), Egon Willighagen (Contributor), Jo Wood (Contributor), Matt Wood (Contributor), Nathan Yau (Contributor)

Series: Theory in Practice

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For an interaction designer, this edited collection has a refreshing approach: It starts from the concept of data, and develops many aspects -- from database organization and query efficiency to strategies for guerilla data collection projects, from accessing the deep web to visualization and digital data-based arts. After reading it, my sense was that I had received a glimpse of important concepts and concerns in several specialized fields related to my own -- and I also dog-eared a couple of chapters as immediately relevant to future work in information visualization and open-data aggregation.

jonas.lowgren | Sep 15, 2011 |

One of the best books I've read this year. (

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vertis | Apr 13, 2011 |

A thought-provoking tour of recent data-intensive research. I found it most useful for its "aha" and "I should have thought of that" moments. I also appreciated the numerous external references to free datasets and data processing tools. (

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