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Visualizing Data
副标题: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
ISBN: 9780596514556
出版社: O'Reilly Media
出版年: 2008-1-11
页数: 384
定价: USD 39.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more.
How do the 3.1 billion A, C, G and T letters of the human genome compare to those of a chimp or a mouse? What do the paths that millions of visitors take through a web site look like? With Visualizing Data, you learn how to answer complex questions like these with thoroughly interactive displays. We're not talking about cookie-cutter charts and graphs. This book teaches you how to design entire interfaces around large, complex data sets with the help of a powerful new design and prototyping tool called "Processing".
Used by many researchers and companies to convey specific data in a clear and understandable manner, the Processing beta is available free. With this tool and Visualizing Data as a guide, you'll learn basic visualization principles, how to choose the right kind of display for your purposes, and how to provide interactive features that will bring users to your site over and over. This book teaches you:
* The seven stages of visualizing data -- acquire, parse, filter, mine, represent, refine, and interact
* How all data problems begin with a question and end with a narrative construct that provides a clear answer without extraneous details
* Several example projects with the code to make them work
* Positive and negative points of each representation discussed. The focus is on customization so that each one best suits what you want to convey about your data set
The book does not provide ready-made "visualizations" that can be plugged into any data set. Instead, with chapters divided by types of data rather than types of display, you'll learn how each visualization conveys the unique properties of the data it represents -- why the data was collected, what's interesting about it, and what stories it can tell. Visualizing Data teaches you how to answer questions, not simply display information.
作者简介
Ben Fry在麻省理工多媒体实验室Aesthetics + Computation Group获得了博士学位。他是卡内基?梅隆设计学院2006~2007年度Nierenberg Chair of Design的客座教授。他同Casey Reas共同开发了Processing，在2005年获得了Prix Ars Electronica的Gloden Nica奖项。Ben的作品获得了Rockefeller 基金会的New Media奖学金，并且展示在现代艺术博物馆，Ars Electronica，2002年的Whitney Biennial，以及2003年的Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial中。
