Beautiful data : (Record no. 33625)
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| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
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| LC control number | 2010277075 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780596157111 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call number | 005.74 BE AU |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Beautiful data : |
| Subtitle | the stories behind elegant data solutions |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Edited by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Sebastopol, CA : |
| Publisher | O'Reilly, |
| Date | c2009. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 364 p. : |
| Other Details | ill. ; |
| Size | 24 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Subtitle from cover. |
| CONTENTS | |
| Contents | Seeing your life in data / by Nathan Yau -- The beautiful people : keeping users in mind when designing data collection methods / by Jonathan Follett and Matthew Holm -- Embedded image data processing on Mars / by J.M. Hughes -- Cloud storage design in a nutshell / by Brian F. Cooper, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Utkarsh Srivastava -- Information platforms and the rise of the data scientist / by Jeff Hammerbacher -- The geographic beauty of a photographic archive / by Jason Dykes and Jo Wood -- Data finds data / by Jeff Jonas and Lisa Sokol -- Portable data in real time / by Jud Valeski -- Surfacing the deep web / by Alon Halevy and Jayant Madhaven -- Building Radiohead's house of cards / by Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump -- Visualizing urban data / by Michal Migurski -- The design of sense.us / by Jeffery Heer -- What data doesn't do / by Coco Krumme -- Natural language corpus data / by Peter Norvig -- Life in data : the story of DNA / by Matt Wood and Ben Blackburne -- Beautifying data in the real world / by Jean-Claude Bradley ... [et al.] -- Superficial data analysis : exploring millions of social stereotypes / by Brendan O'Connor and Lukas Biewald -- Bay area blues : the effect of the housing crisis / by Hadley Wickham, Deborah F. Swayne, and David Poole -- Beautiful political data / by Andrew Gelman, Jonathan P. Kastellec, and Yair Ghitza -- Connecting data / by Toby Segaran. |
| SUMMARY | |
| Summary | In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video. With Beautiful Data, you will: Explore the opportunities and challenges involved in working with the vast number of datasets made available by the Web Learn how to visualize trends in urban crime, using maps and data mashups Discover the challenges of designing a data processing system that works within the constraints of space travel Learn how crowdsourcing and transparency have combined to advance the state of drug research Understand how new data can automatically trigger alerts when it matches or overlaps pre-existing data Learn about the massive infrastructure required to create, capture, and process DNA data. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Database design |
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| Topical Heading | Data structures (Computer science) |
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| Topical Heading | Databases as Topic |
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| Name | Segaran, Toby |
| Role | Edited by |
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| Name | Hammerbacher, Jeff |
| Role | Edited by |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2018-05-14 | AMAUK | 005.74 BE AU | T0059137 | 2018-02-04 | 2018-02-04 | REGULAR | May2018 |