Visualizing Data
Visualizing Data Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment By Ben Fry
December 2007
Pages: 382

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 The Seven Stages of Visualizing Data

    1. Why Data Display Requires Planning

    2. An Example

    3. Iteration and Combination

    4. Principles

    5. Onward

  2. Chapter 2 Getting Started with Processing

    1. Sketching with Processing

    2. Exporting and Distributing Your Work

    3. Examples and Reference

    4. Functions

    5. Sketching and Scripting

    6. Ready?

  3. Chapter 3 Mapping

    1. Drawing a Map

    2. Locations on a Map

    3. Data on a Map

    4. Using Your Own Data

    5. Next Steps

  4. Chapter 4 Time Series

    1. Milk, Tea, and Coffee (Acquire and Parse)

    2. Cleaning the Table (Filter and Mine)

    3. A Simple Plot (Represent and Refine)

    4. Labeling the Current Data Set (Refine and Interact)

    5. Drawing Axis Labels (Refine)

    6. Choosing a Proper Representation (Represent and Refine)

    7. Using Rollovers to Highlight Points (Interact)

    8. Ways to Connect Points (Refine)

    9. Text Labels As Tabbed Panes (Interact)

    10. Interpolation Between Data Sets (Interact)

    11. End of the Series

  5. Chapter 5 Connections and Correlations

    1. Changing Data Sources

    2. Problem Statement

    3. Preprocessing

    4. Using the Preprocessed Data (Acquire, Parse, Filter, Mine)

    5. Displaying the Results (Represent)

    6. Returning to the Question (Refine)

    7. Sophisticated Sorting: Using Salary As a Tiebreaker (Mine)

    8. Moving to Multiple Days (Interact)

    9. Smoothing Out the Interaction (Refine)

    10. Deployment Considerations (Acquire, Parse, Filter)

  6. Chapter 6 Scatterplot Maps

    1. Preprocessing

    2. Loading the Data (Acquire and Parse)

    3. Drawing a Scatterplot of Zip Codes (Mine and Represent)

    4. Highlighting Points While Typing (Refine and Interact)

    5. Show the Currently Selected Point (Refine)

    6. Progressively Dimming and Brightening Points (Refine)

    7. Zooming In (Interact)

    8. Changing How Points Are Drawn When Zooming (Refine)

    9. Deployment Issues (Acquire and Refine)

    10. Next Steps

  7. Chapter 7 Trees, Hierarchies, and Recursion

    1. Using Recursion to Build a Directory Tree

    2. Using a Queue to Load Asynchronously (Interact)

    3. An Introduction to Treemaps

    4. Which Files Are Using the Most Space?

    5. Viewing Folder Contents (Interact)

    6. Improving the Treemap Display (Refine)

    7. Flying Through Files (Interact)

    8. Next Steps

  8. Chapter 8 Networks and Graphs

    1. Simple Graph Demo

    2. A More Complicated Graph

    3. Approaching Network Problems

    4. Advanced Graph Example

    5. Mining Additional Information

  9. Chapter 9 Acquiring Data

    1. Where to Find Data

    2. Tools for Acquiring Data from the Internet

    3. Locating Files for Use with Processing

    4. Loading Text Data

    5. Dealing with Files and Folders

    6. Listing Files in a Folder

    7. Asynchronous Image Downloads

    8. Using openStream( ) As a Bridge to Java

    9. Dealing with Byte Arrays

    10. Advanced Web Techniques

    11. Using a Database

    12. Dealing with a Large Number of Files

  10. Chapter 10 Parsing Data

    1. Levels of Effort

    2. Tools for Gathering Clues

    3. Text Is Best

    4. Text Markup Languages

    5. Regular Expressions (regexps)

    6. Grammars and BNF Notation

    7. Compressed Data

    8. Vectors and Geometry

    9. Binary Data Formats

    10. Advanced Detective Work

  11. Chapter 11 Integrating Processing with Java

    1. Programming Modes

    2. Additional Source Files (Tabs)

    3. The Preprocessor

    4. API Structure

    5. Embedding PApplet into Java Applications

    6. Using Java Code in a Processing Sketch

    7. Using Libraries

    8. Building with the Source for processing.core

  1. Bibliography

  2. Colophon

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