Ebook: Visualizing Data

How can you take advantage of data that you might otherwise never use? With the help of a powerful new programming environment, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more. We're not talking about cookie-cutter charts and graphs. This book teaches you how to design entire interfaces around large, complex data sets. You'll learn basic visualization principles, how to choose the right kind of display for your purposes, and how to provide interactive features that will bring users to your site over and over. Visualizing Data, and the popular Processing platform it introduces, is ideal for researchers, companies, and anyone who wants to convey specific data in a clear and understandable manner. Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. 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 visitors take through a web site look like? With Visualizing Data, you learn how to answer complex questions like these with thoroughly interactive displays (source : 4e de couv.).;Provides information on the methods of visualizing data on the Web, along with example projects and code.