Toby Segaran

Beautiful Data (eBook, ePUB)

The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 WebLearn how to visualize trends in urban crime, using maps and data mashupsDiscover the challenges of designing a data processing system that works within the constraints of space travelLearn how crowdsourcing and transparency have combined to advance the state of drug researchUnderstand how new data can automatically trigger alerts when it matches or overlaps pre-existing dataLearn about the massive infrastructure required to create, capture, and process DNA dataThat's only small sample of what you'll find in Beautiful Data. For anyone who handles data, this is a truly fascinating book. Contributors include:Nathan YauJonathan Follett and Matt HolmJ.M. HughesRaghu Ramakrishnan, Brian Cooper, and Utkarsh SrivastavaJeff HammerbacherJason Dykes and Jo WoodJeff Jonas and Lisa SokolJud ValeskiAlon Halevy and Jayant MadhavanAaron Koblin with Valdean KlumpMichal MigurskiJeff HeerCoco KrummePeter NorvigMatt Wood and Ben BlackburneJean-Claude Bradley, Rajarshi Guha, Andrew Lang, Pierre Lindenbaum, Cameron Neylon, Antony Williams, and Egon WillighagenLukas Biewald and Brendan O'ConnorHadley Wickham, Deborah Swayne, and David PooleAndrew Gelman, Jonathan P. Kastellec, and Yair GhitzaToby Segaran

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449379292
• Artikelnr.: 53043266

Autorenporträt

Toby Segaran is the author of Programming Collective Intelligence, a very popular O'Reilly title. He was the founder of Incellico, a biotech software company later acquired by Genstruct. He currently holds the title of Data Magnate at Metaweb Technologies and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents: Chapter 1 Seeing Your Life in Data Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) your.flowingdata (YFD) Personal Data Collection Data Storage Data Processing Data Visualization The Point How to Participate Chapter 2 The Beautiful People: Keeping Users in Mind When Designing Data Collection Methods Introduction: User Empathy Is the New Black The Project: Surveying Customers About a New Luxury Product Specific Challenges to Data Collection Designing Our Solution Results and Reflection Chapter 3 Embedded Image Data Processing on Mars Abstract Introduction Some Background To Pack or Not to Pack The Three Tasks Slotting the Images Passing the Image: Communication Among the Three Tasks Getting the Picture: Image Download and Processing Image Compression Downlink, or, It's All Downhill from Here Conclusion Chapter 4 Cloud Storage Design in a PNUTShell Introduction Updating Data Complex Queries Comparison with Other Systems Conclusion Acknowledgments References Chapter 5 Information Platforms and the Rise of the Data Scientist Libraries and Brains Facebook Becomes Self-Aware A Business Intelligence System The Death and Rebirth of a Data Warehouse Beyond the Data Warehouse The Cheetah and the Elephant The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data New Tools and Applied Research MAD Skills and Cosmos Information Platforms As Dataspaces The Data Scientist Conclusion Chapter 6 The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive Beauty in Data: Geograph Visualization, Beauty, and Treemaps A Geographic Perspective on Geograph Term Use Beauty in Discovery Reflection and Conclusion Acknowledgments References Chapter 7 Data Finds Data Introduction The Benefits of Just-in-Time Discovery Corruption at the Roulette Wheel Enterprise Discoverability Federated Search Ain't All That Directories: Priceless Relevance: What Matters and to Whom? Components and Special Considerations Privacy Considerations Conclusion Chapter 8 Portable Data in Real Time Introduction The State of the Art Social Data Normalization Conclusion: Mediation via Gnip Chapter 9 Surfacing the Deep Web What Is the Deep Web? Alternatives to Offering Deep-Web Access Conclusion and Future Work References Chapter 10 Building Radiohead's House of Cards How It All Started The Data Capture Equipment The Advantages of Two Data Capture Systems The Data Capturing the Data, aka "The Shoot" Processing the Data Post-Processing the Data Launching the Video Conclusion Chapter 11 Visualizing Urban Data ...