Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky - Beautiful Visualization

Here's a preview of what you'll find in this book:

, by Noah Iliinsky, offers an examination of what we mean by beauty in the context of visualization, why it's a worthy goal to pursue, and how to get there.

, by Matthias Shapiro, explains the importance of storytelling to visualization and walks readers through the creation of a simple visualization project they can do on their own.

, by Jonathan Feinberg, explains the inner workings of his popular method for visualizing a body of text, discussing both the technical and aesthetic choices the author made along the way.

, by Michael Driscoll, shows how color can be used effectively to convey additional dimensions of data that our brains are able to recognize before we're aware of it.

, by Eddie Jabbour, explores the humble subway map as a basic visualization tool for understanding complex systems.

, by Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump, visualizes civilian air traffic in the United States and Canada to reveal a method to the madness of air travel.

, by Valdis Krebs, digs into behavioral data to show how the books we buy and the people we associate with reveal clues about our deeper selves.

, by Andrew Odewahn, uses quantitative evidence to evaluate a qualitative story about voting coalitions in the United States Senate.

, by Todd Holloway, uses a proximity graphing technique to explore the dynamics of search and discovery as they apply to YELLOWPAGES.COM and the Netflix Prize.

, by Adam Perer, empowers users to dig into chaotic social network visualizations with interactive techniques that integrate visualization and statistics.

, by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Vigas, takes readers through the process of exploring an unknown phenomenon through visualization, from initial sketches to published scientific papers.

, by Robert Kosara, emphasizes the relationship between the visual representation of data and the underlying data structure or database design.

, by Moritz Stefaner, describes the process of striving to find a representation of information that is not only useable and informative but also sensual and evocative.

, by Maximilian Schich, uncovers nonintuitive structures in curated databases arising from local activity by the curators and the heterogeneity of the source data.

, by Jer Thorp, guides readers through using the API to explore and visualize data from the New York Times archives.

, by Michael Young and Nick Bilton, relates how the New York Times R&D group is using Python and Map/Reduce to examine web and mobile site traffic data across the country and around the world.

, by Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield, Haru Ji, Basak Alper, Dennis Adderton, and Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, describes the remarkable scientific exploration made possible by cutting-edge visualization and sonification techniques at the AlloSphere.

, by Anders Persson, examines new imaging technologies being used to collect and analyze data on human and animal cadavers.

, by Danyel Fisher, attempts to work out a framework for designing animated visualizations.

, by Jessica Hagy, provides insight into various aspects of the "elephant" we call visualization such that we come away with a better idea of the big picture.