New Book: Beautiful Data

“Beautiful Data – The Story Behind Beautiful data Solutions” is a new Book by the O’Reilly Media. It’s written by Toby Segaran & Jeff Hammerbacher but there are 39 contributors explaining their approaches and methods when working with data. The bespoken fields vary from the Mars lander to mapping crime data using maps and mashed-up public data. This wide range of topics is something often missing in recent publications and makes “Beautiful Data” a must read if you like to have a look beyond your own nose.

The contributers list includes some of the best practitioners in the field including:

• Nathan Yau from FlowingData.com
  
• Jonathan Follett and Matt Holm from HotKnife Design
  
• John Hughes
• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Brian Cooper, and Utkarsh Srivastava from Yahoo!
  
• Jeff Hammerbacher from MainlyData
  
• Jason Dykes and Jo Wood from the City University London
  
• Jeff Jonas and Lisa Sokol from IBM
• Jud Valeski from Gnip
• Alon Halevy and Jayant Madhavan from Google Inc.
  
• Aaron Koblin and Valdean Klump from the Google Creative lab
• Michael Migurski from Stamen
• Jeff Heer from the Stanford Computer Science Department
• Coco Krumme from MetaWeb
• Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google Inc.
• Matt Wood and Ben Blackburne from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Jean-Claude Bradley, Rajarshi Guha, Andrew Lang, Pierre Lindenbaum, Cameron Neylon, Antony Williams, and Egon Willighagen
• Lukas Biewald and Brendan O’Connor
• Hadley Wickham, Deborah Swayne, and David Poole
• Andrew Gelman, John Kastellec, and Yair Ghitza from Columbia University
• Toby Segaran

You can order the book from O’Reilly Media or Amazon.com.