Information Visualization - Books, Links and More

Visual Data Mining: Techniques and Tools for Data Visualization and Mining by Tom Soukup, Ian Davidson

Marketing analysts use data mining techniques to g more...0 points

Marketing analysts use data mining techniques to gain a reliable understanding of customer buying habits and then use that information to develop new marketing campaigns and products. Visual mining tools introduce a world of possibilities to a much broader and non-technical audience to help them solve common business problems.<br /> * Explains how to select the appropriate data sets for analysis, transform the data sets into usable formats, and verify that the sets are error-free<br /&g...0 points

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte

A remarkable range of examples for the idea of vis more...0 points

A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim0 points

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte

A modern classic. Tufte teaches the fundamentals o more...0 points

A modern classic. Tufte teaches the fundamentals of graphics, charts, maps and tables. "A visual Strunk and White" (The Boston Globe). Includes 250 delightfullly entertaining illustrations, all beautifully printed.0 points

Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused more...0 points

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more. How do the 3.1 billion A, C, G and T letters of the human genome compare to those of a chimp or a mouse? What do the paths that millions of visi...0 points

Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte

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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few

Tables and graphs can more adequately communicate more...0 points

Tables and graphs can more adequately communicate important business information when they reflect the good design practices discussed in this practical guide to effective table and graph design. Information is provided on the fundamental concepts of table and graph design, the numbers and knowledge most suitable for display in a graphic form, the best tabular means to communicate certain ideas, and the component-level aspects of design. Analysts, technicians, and managers will appreciate the so...0 points

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists by Casey Reas, Ben Fry

It has been more than twenty years since desktop p more...0 points

It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it's clear that there is a growing need for designers and artists to learn programming skills to fill the widening gap between their ideas and the capability of their purchased software. This book is an introduction to the concepts of computer programming within the context of the visual arts. It offers a comprehensive reference and text for Processing (www.processing.org), an open-source programming language that...0 points

Flash Math Creativity by Manny Tan, Jamie Macdonald, Glen Rhodes, Brandon Williams, Kip Parker, Gabriel Mulzer, Jared Tarbell, Ty Lettau, JD Hooge, Keith Peters, David Hirmes, Lifaros, Paul Prudence, Pavel Kaluzhny, Ken Jokol

Also featuring: Keith Peters, David Hirmes, Lifaro more...0 points

Also featuring: Keith Peters, David Hirmes, Lifaros, Paul Prudence, Pavel Kaluzhny, Ken Jokol Forget school math class, Flash math is about fun. it's what you do in your spare time - messing around with little ideas until the design takes over and you end up with something beautiful, bizarre, or just downright brilliant. It's a book of iterative experiments, generative design; a book of inspiration, beautiful enough to leave on the coffee table, but addictive enough to keep by your computer and....0 points

Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation) by Ira Greenberg

Create code art, visualizations, and interactive more...0 points

Create code art, visualizations, and interactive applications with this powerful yet simple computer language and programming environment Learn how to code 2D and 3D animation, pixel-level imaging, motion effects, and physics simulations Take a creative and fun approach to learning creative computer programming If you're interested in creating cutting-edge code-based art and animations, you've come to the right place! Processing (available at www.processing.org) is a revolutionary open source....0 points

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangeme more...0 points

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.0 points