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Visualizing Data
by Ben Fry
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Features:

• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Great book, bad title
  I'm short of superlatives for this book or more generally for the work of Ben Fry.
  In my line of work, how people think of graphs is very much influenced by what is possible to do in Excel without changing the default settings too much.
  Enter Processing, a data visualization-oriented language, which makes it easy to create custom visualizations, tailored for the problem you want to address. There is a growing community around Processing and a number of truly incredible graphs that have been... more info

• An excellent guide
  This book was exactly what I was looking for--chapter eight alone was worth the cost of the book. A word to the wise: rather than assuming its contents from the title alone, read chapter one thoroughly to ensure that this book is right for you.

• Where's The Visualized Data??
  'Visualizing Data' is a book that is supposed to discuss how data is presented, sorted, stored and examined. Instead what we get is a 350+ page book that is jumbled with lots of code samples (why) and a small subset of data that is actually visualized. This is a really niche topic that I thought would be interesting to examine as I opened the book cover but thumbing through I saw few pictures (although there are a few in here that are good) and lots of java code. While it's interesting to see how data is... more info

• Visualizing Data: Process, Code and Tools!
  Ben Fry hits the mark!
  The author jumps right into describing the process in Chapter 1, "The Seven Stages of Visualizing Data."
  He elaborates each of the stages with illustrations and examples.
  In chapter 2, "Getting Started with Processing," Ben introduces a software tool (named Processing) that's available for download: www.processing.org/download.
  From the site: "Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and... more info

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