Beautiful Data

August 5th, 2009 by Lukas Biewald

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.

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2 Responses to “Beautiful Data”

  1. kare anderson Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    Fascinating and beautiful. You may be interested in the visual data firm infomotor - Tyler Peppel runs it

  2. Lover Says:
    December 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am

    that is beautiful data but what do you actually wish to teach people about that?

  3. Google Local Business Directory Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 6:45 am

    The image caught my eye, it looks like a slice of kiwi fruit. The further you step away from things the more apparent the patterns become. Organic patterns expresses themselves everywhere, awesome!

    I followed the link to your article. Impressive. I know the story already, because I’ve been reading your blog, but I’d really like to get a copy of the book. Beautiful Data is definitely on my shopping list!

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