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By Ben Fry
December 2007
Pages: 382
ISBN 10: 0-596-51455-7 |
ISBN 13: 9780596514556
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How you can take advantage of data that you might otherwise never use? With the help of the free software programming environment called Processing, this book helps you represent data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more. You'll learn basic visualization principles, how to choose the right kind of display for your purposes, and how to provide interactive features to design entire interfaces around large, complex data sets.
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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 you:
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 you:
- The seven stages of visualizing data -- acquire, parse, filter, mine, represent, refine, and interact
- How all data problems begin with a question and end with a narrative construct that provides a clear answer without extraneous details
- Several example projects with the code to make them work
- Positive and negative points of each representation discussed. The focus is on customization so that each one best suits what you want to convey about your data set
Featured customer reviews
THE methodology for visualizing data, April 10 2008
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Julien Bayle
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Before to read this book, I experimented a lot Processing environment.
I'd like to visualize data with an artistic approach.
The obvious lack of method, lack of knowledge about that were very frustrated.
The Fry's book has just bridged these gaps with a very structured methodology to organize our ideas, our datas and our projects.
This is definitively a must!
Tremendously useful!, January 13 2008
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Michael Cytrynowicz
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What a great book - I knew about John Maeda and his students, and later got interested in Processing, which is very, very cool - but Ben Fry's book opens the door to Processing being useful to my work. The worked out examples were thoughtfully chosen for extensibility (do more interesting things, use your own data, etc.).
A star in O'Reilly's series, I think this one will become a classic.
Media reviews
"A beautifully clear explanation of how to bring data to life, by a master of the art."
-- Jonathan Harris, creator of We Feel Fine, 10 X 10, Universe, and WordCount
"This wonderfully detailed guide, by one of the masters of modern data graphics, tells you everything you need to know to code your own visualizations from scratch. Perhaps most valuable are the many examples where Fry demonstrates how to refine a bare-bones concept into a beautiful, effective finished piece. Read this book, and you'll never again be dependent on someone else's view of your data."
-- Martin Wattenberg, creator of Map of the Market and the Baby Name Voyager
"If you’re working in a Java shop where Processing is either used or could be brought in without too much effort, buying this book is an easy choice. If Processing doesn’t look like a good choice for you, this book is still worth a look for the concepts it teaches."
-- Pat Eyler, On Ruby
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