“Beautiful Visualization” from O’Reilly Books

Robert Kosara points us to a new book available at O’Reilly called “Beautiful Visualization“, a collection of essays on several topics of interest.

The chapters cover topics like Wordle, the New York Times News API, the use of color, visualizing Wikipedia, etc. Among the authors are people like Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas, Moritz Stefaner, Danyel Fisher, etc. All chapters are in the 10-25 page range, which makes for nice bite-sized chunks that can be read one after the other or as you find the time for them.

Robert’s chapter is on Parallel Sets, but the book covers the gamut.  Available at O’Reilly as a restriction-free PDF for $40, or a physical print at $60, the entire book is released under creative commons.

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .