Beautiful data : the stories behind elegant data solutions
Title By: Segaran, Toby [Edited by] | Hammerbacher, Jeff [Edited by]
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BookPublisher: Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, c2009.Description: xv, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780596157111Subject(s): Database design | Data structures (Computer science) | Databases as TopicDDC classification: 005.74 BE AU Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 005.74 BE AU (Browse shelf) | Available | May2018 | T0059137 |
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| 005.74 BA DA Database security | 005.74 BA DA Database security | 005.74 BA DA Database security | 005.74 BE AU Beautiful data : | 005.74 BE PR Principles of big data : | 005.74 BE YO Beyond databases, architectures, and structures : | 005.74 BI GD Big data analytics |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.