Beautiful Visualization

With contributions from more than two dozen visualization experts, Beautiful Visualization demonstrates how images can help you both detect and explain patterns. From a familiar map of the New York City subway system to a never-before-seen diagram of the human brain, this book will take you behind the scenes of cutting-edge design projects that depict the world around us in new ways.

Contributors include Gregor Hochmuth, Todd Holloway, Jonathan Feinberg, Andrew Vande Moere, Maximilian Schich, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Michael E Driscoll, Matthias Shapiro, Valdis Krebs, Jer Thorp, Moritz Stefaner, and many more.

Learn how sound can be combined with images to enhance the process of scientific inquiry
See the connections between various U.S. senators and their recent voting decisions
Understand how the books people choose to buy online tell us what social groups they are part of
Learn how color reveals higher dimensions of data
Explore the non-intuitive structures in curated databases

Autorenporträt:

Noah has spent the last several years thinking about effective approaches to creating diagrams and other types of information visualization. He also works in interface and interaction design, all from a functional and user-centered perspective. Before becoming a designer he was a programmer for several years. He has a master's in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor's in Physics from Reed College.

Themen:

• Data Mining
• Visualisierung

Verwandte Themen:

• Business Intelligence
• Datenanalyse
• Information Retrieval
• Künstliche Intelligenz
• Maschinelles Lernen
• Selbstheilung
• Präsentation
• Gebrauchsgrafik
• Training
• Diagramm