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NoneTable of contents
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Beautiful Data
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- 1. Seeing Your Life in Data
- 2. The Beautiful People: Keeping Users in Mind When Designing Data Collection Methods
- 3. Embedded Image Data Processing on Mars
- 4. Cloud Storage Design in a PNUTShell
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5. Information Platforms and the Rise of the Data Scientist
- Libraries and Brains
- Facebook Becomes Self-Aware
- A Business Intelligence System
- The Death and Rebirth of a Data Warehouse
- Beyond the Data Warehouse
- The Cheetah and the Elephant
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
- New Tools and Applied Research
- MAD Skills and Cosmos
- Information Platforms As Dataspaces
- The Data Scientist
- Conclusion
- 6. The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive
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7. Data Finds Data
- Introduction
- The Benefits of Just-in-Time Discovery
- Corruption at the Roulette Wheel
- Enterprise Discoverability
- Federated Search Ain't All That
- Directories: Priceless
- Relevance: What Matters and to Whom?
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Components and Special Considerations
- The Existence of, and Availability of, Observations
- The Ability to Extract and Classify Features from the Observations
- The Ability to Efficiently Discover Related Historical Context
- The Ability to Make Assertions (Same or Related) About New Observations
- The Ability to Recognize When New Observations Reverse Earlier Assertions
- The Ability to Accumulate and Persist This Asserted Context
- The Ability to Recognize the Formation of Relevance/Insight
- The Ability to Notify the Appropriate Entity of Such Insight
- Privacy Considerations
- Conclusion
- 8. Portable Data in Real Time
- 9. Surfacing the Deep Web
- 10. Building Radiohead's House of Cards
- 11. Visualizing Urban Data
- 12. The Design of Sense.us
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13. What Data Doesn't Do
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When Doesn't Data Drive?
- 1. More Data Isn't Always Better
- 2. More Data Isn't Always Easy
- 3. Data Alone Doesn't Explain
- 4. Data Isn't Good for a Single Answer
- 5. Data Doesn't Predict
- 6. Probability Isn't Intuitive
- 7. Probabilities Aren't Intuitive
- 8. The Real World Doesn't Create Random Variables
- 9. Data Doesn't Stand Alone
- 10. Data Isn't Free from the Eye of the Beholder
- Conclusion
- References
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When Doesn't Data Drive?
- 14. Natural Language Corpus Data
- 15. Life in Data: The Story of DNA
- 16. Beautifying Data in the Real World
- 17. Superficial Data Analysis: Exploring Millions of Social Stereotypes
- 18. Bay Area Blues: The Effect of the Housing Crisis
- 19. Beautiful Political Data
- 20. Connecting Data
- A. Contributors
- Index
- About the Authors
- COLOPHON
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