Toby Segaran

Beautiful Data (eBook, PDF)

The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

• Format: PDF

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: 9781449392055
• Artikelnr.: 53014365

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

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