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Visualize This (by Nathan Yau) arrived...
Last Friday I received my long-anticipated copy of "Visualize This" by Nathan Yau. On its website it is described as a "practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data". You can guess what my weekend looked like :-)
Overall, I believe this book is a very good choice for people interested in getting started in data visualization. Not only does it provide the context in which to create visualizations (chapters 1, 2 and 9), it also handles different tools for creating them: R, protovis, flash.... Apart from chapter 3 that is dedicated entirely to that topic, different examples in the book were created using different tools, which gives people a good feel of what's possible in each and how "hard" or "easy" the coding itself is for the different options.
Overall, I believe this book is a very good choice for people interested in getting started in data visualization. Not only does it provide the context in which to create visualizations (chapters 1, 2 and 9), it also handles different tools for creating them: R, protovis, flash.... Apart from chapter 3 that is dedicated entirely to that topic, different examples in the book were created using different tools, which gives people a good feel of what's possible in each and how "hard" or "easy" the coding itself is for the different options.
