Beautiful Data
Edited by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher
CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
1 SEEING YOUR LIFE IN DATA
2 THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: KEEPING USERS IN MIND WHEN
DESIGNING DATA COLLECTION METHODS
3 EMBEDDED IMAGE DATA PROCESSING ON MARS
4 CLOUD STORAGE DESIGN IN A PNUTSHELL
5 INFORMATION PLATFORMS AND THE RISE OF THE
DATA SCIENTIST
6 THE GEOGRAPHIC BEAUTY OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
7 DATA FINDS DATA
8 PORTABLE DATA IN REAL TIME
9 SURFACING THE DEEP WEB
10 BUILDING RADIOHEAD’S HOUSE OF CARDS
11 VISUALIZING URBAN DATA
12 THE DESIGN OF SENSE.US
13 WHAT DATA DOESN’T DO
14 NATURAL LANGUAGE CORPUS DATA
15 LIFE IN DATA: THE STORY OF DNA
16 BEAUTIFYING DATA IN THE REAL WORLD
17 SUPERFICIAL DATA ANALYSIS: EXPLORING MILLIONS OF
SOCIAL STEREOTYPES
18 BAY AREA BLUES: THE EFFECT OF THE HOUSING CRISIS
19 BEAUTIFUL POLITICAL DATA
20 CONNECTING DATA
