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Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts Paperback – Illustrated, July 13 2010

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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.

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1449379869
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978-1449379865
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1st
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O'Reilly Media
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July 13 2010
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English
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17.78 x 1.73 x 23.34 cm
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418 pages
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About the Author

Julie Steele is an Editor at O'Reilly currently working on titles related to Python, SQL, PHP, web frameworks and CMS, databases (relational and non-relational), big data and cloud computing, and data visualization. She's also interested in data transparency and open government, and recently completed a master's degree in political science at Rutgers University.

Noah Illinsky has spent the last several years thinking about effective approaches to creating diagrams and other types of information visualization. He also works in interface and interaction design, all from a functional and user-centered perspective. Before becoming a designer he was a programmer for several years. He has a master's in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor's in Physics from Reed College.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (July 13 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 418 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449379869
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449379865
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 666 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.73 x 23.34 cm

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Jean Thibault

Not so beautiful

Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2012

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In one word: Disappointing.

This is actually a collection of small books, none of which would be worth printing on its own. The pictures aren't beautiful, and few of them are as intuitive or as easily interpreted as the authors think they are. I didn't find anything in here that I'd use.

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T. Day

Very interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2011

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Some fascinating articles in this. I think know a fair bit about 3D graphics and scientific visualisation, but this book opened the door to a whole new infovis world, gives some major insight into how practitioners in that world operate, and prompted me to go off an experiment with some of the tools referenced. No printing problems with my copy, and the image detail seems fine to me. Don't expect a glossy, coffee table book; this is more like a collection of (very accessible) scientific papers.

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Angus Lyon

content great, illustrations too small in current print format

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2012

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very interesting content, but the book's illustrations were frustratingly small and the text on the illustrations was not legible even in bright daylight

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Krishnamoorthy Balaraman

Poor print quality and its ironic that this book is in black and white and not color.

Reviewed in India on September 29, 2015

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It is not worth buying the low cost Indian edition of this book in paperback edition. It is quite shocking to see a book on data visualization talking about the use of color and luminosity among various other aspects being printed in black and white.

The print quality is also well below acceptable levels for a book of this nature. While I dont expect something like the Edward Tufte books, I do expect images to be intelligible. A case in point is uploaded with the review - It is the underground map. You cannot make out any of the details from the map.

You are better off buying the kindle edition of this book and using the discount coupon from O'Reilly to convert it into a multi format electronic version of the book for about $9. I now have the kindle edition (which in color by the way) and also the pdf version which is also in color.

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Mr. T. Browne

What a crime

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2011

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You'd think that a book that calls itself "beautiful", would understand the basics of graphics DTP and printing. Sadly this book is marred by extensive use of raster images instead of vector ones, making edges fuzzy, text annotations practically illegible in many cases, and even blacks are most often composite (ie ugly brown made up of CMY instead of proper K). The layout people have clearly tried to up the quality by increasing the pixel density, but the graphics are disappointingly ugly due to this basic error. Moreover many charts are printed far too small, making text practically illegible, and certainly unpleasant to read. Many essays appear to have been thrown together from computer screen-based presentation raw materials, which just do not cut it in print.

I was hoping this book might look something like the truly "beautiful" Tufte books. No.

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Familien-Pappa-mit-Hirn-und-Herz

Pure Enttäuschung

Reviewed in Germany on January 17, 2011

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Das Buch ist eine lieblose Sammlung von Beispielen aus der Historie und aktueller Themen. Für mich gehört bei einem Buch zur Visualisierung auch das Layout des Buches und das ist in diesem Fall schrecklich. Die Qualität der Grafiken reichen hier von hervorragend, über mittelmaß in viel zu niedriger Auflösung (50 dpi?) bis zu schlecht ausgeleuchteten Schnapschüssen. Ich kann auf jedenfall keinen Transfer für meine Arbeit ziehen. Der Untertitel "Theory in practice" wird dem Buch nicht gerecht. Es ist nur sehr begrenzt eine Anleitung für den Weg von den Daten zu einer ansprechenden Visualisierung...

Bei mir landet das Buch in den Papierkorb. Schade um's Geld.

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