Brendan and I wrote a chapter for an O’Reilly book called Beautiful Data. We took a lot of the analysis from earlier blog posts and distilled it into a longer book chapter about exploring a large data set and turning the messy data into beautiful, compelling graphs. We tried to highlight the tools and techniques that don’t make it into textbooks and are instead passed along by word-of-mouth among people in the field.
You can check out a version of our chapter, and if you like it, we recommend you buy the book which is full of authors I admire: Jeff Hammerbacher, Toby Segaran, Aaron Koblin, Nathan Yau, Mike Migurski, Peter Norvig, Andrew Gelman and many more.
kare anderson
08/24/09
Fascinating and beautiful. You may be interested in the visual data firm infomotor – Tyler Peppel runs it
Lover
12/27/09
that is beautiful data but what do you actually wish to teach people about that?