Julie Steele is an Editor at O'Reilly currently working on titles related to Python, SQL, PHP, web frameworks and CMS, databases (relational and non-relational), big data and cloud computing, and data visualization. She's also interested in data transparency and open government, and recently completed a master's degree in political science at Rutgers University.
Noah Illinsky 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.
Table of Contents:
• Preface • Chapter 1: On Beauty • Chapter 2: Once Upon a Stacked Time Series • Chapter 3: Wordle • Chapter 4: Color: The Cinderella of Data Visualization • Chapter 5: Mapping Information: Redesigning the New York City Subway Map • Chapter 6: Flight Patterns: A Deep Dive • Chapter 7: Your Choices Reveal Who You Are: Mining and Visualizing Social Patterns • Chapter 8: Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph (1991-2009) • Chapter 9: The Big Picture: Search and Discovery • Chapter 10: Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations • Chapter 11: Beautiful History: Visualizing Wikipedia • Chapter 12: Turning a Table into a Tree: Growing Parallel Sets into a Purposeful Project • Chapter 13: The Design of "X by Y" • Chapter 14: Revealing Matrices • Chapter 15: This Was 1994: Data Exploration with the NYTimes Article Search API • Chapter 16: A Day in the Life of the New York Times • Chapter 17: Immersed in Unfolding Complex Systems • Chapter 18: Postmortem Visualization: The Real Gold Standard • Chapter 19: Animation for Visualization: Opportunities and Drawbacks • Chapter 20: Visualization: Indexed. • Contributors • Colophon
