Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Edited by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher.

With this unique book, programmers, administrators, and others who handle data can learn by example from the best data practitioners in the history of the field. Modeled after O'Reilly's highly-acclaimed book, ???Beautiful Code???, ???Beautiful Data??? lets readers look over the shoulders of prominent data designers, managers, and handlers for a glimpse into some of the most interesting projects involving data. In an engaging narrative format, the authors think aloud as they explain their work, highlighting the simple and elegant solutions to problems they encountered along the way. The stories in ???Beautiful Data??? cover every facet of data acquisition, storage, retrieval, management, manipulation, and visualization. You'll find important lessons as well as best practices for everything from scientific data to financial and institutional data, technical data, and government data. This is a truly fascinating book for anyone interested in the history of modern computing.