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Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

By Toby Segaran , Jeff Hammerbacher

Book information

Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Year
2009
ISBN
0596157118, 9780596157111
LCC
QA76.9.D26 B413 2009
Open Library ID
OL24030330M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8681281 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
383\383
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

... The contents are less impressive: O'Reilly bring together a heterogeneous group of authors and let them fend for themselves, with no editorial effort to unite their stories. Some authors hold their own, presenting interesting analyses and visualizations, or just interesting tales, others are less successful. (The spectrum of statistical expertise, for example, is bounded by Andrew Gelman and a graduate student believing that normality is a requirement of the central-limit theorem). 'Interesting' is a good thing, but for $40 I would like 'useful', and here the book comes up short. An appealing leisure read, but not much more, I am afraid.

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