Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts

Like the London Tube Map? Then you will love this book. This is an anthology of 20 essays on the topic of data visualization. Beautifully illustrated, with examples from many varied disciplines including: time series, textual origins, color, social patterns and social networks, hand drawn sketches. Chapters are primarily first person accounts of HOW the author came to create their set of visualizations. Includes visual illustations on: Blue State/Red States, NY Subway Map, airplane flight patterns, US Senate voting, YellowPages.com searches, Wikipedia authoring, NY Times articles, and (gag) even forensic postmortems. Recommended for designers and software developers who have ever struggled with how to present complex data -- others may show more like it just for the color pictures. show less

A wonderfully diverse book, you'll find discussions of Tufte, Illustrator and Java Algorithms in the span of several pages. The book is aimed at a very niche market, and some chapters may overwhelm the non-developers, while others will frustrate the non-designers.