Beautiful Data Contributor(s): Segaran, Toby (Author), Hammerbacher, Jeff (Author) |
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ISBN: 0596157118 ISBN-13: 9780596157111 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Databases - Data Mining - Computers | Enterprise Applications - General - Computers | Data Modeling & Design |
Dewey: 005.74 |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.97" W x 9.19" (1.34 lbs) 382 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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.
That'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: |
Contributor Bio(s): Segaran, Toby: - 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. Hammerbacher, Jeff: -Jeff Hammerbacher is the Vice President of Products and Chief Scientist at Cloudera. Jeff was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to joining Cloudera. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the statistics and machine learning applications at Facebook, as well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for massive data sets. The team produced several academic papers and two open source projects: Hive, a system for offline analysis built above Hadoop, and Cassandra, a structured storage system on a P2P network. Before joining Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. Jeff earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University. |