by Matthew A. Russell
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they're talking about, or where they're located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you fin...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Irrlicht 1.7 Realtime 3D Engine: Beginner's Guide 
by Johannes Stein, Aung Sithu Kyaw
The Irrlicht Engine is a cross-platform high-performance real-time 3D engine written in C++. It features a powerful high-level API for creating complete 3D and 2D applications such as games or scientific visualizations.Irrlicht 1.7 Realtime 3D Engine Beginner's Guide will teach you to master all that is required to create 2D and 3D applications using Irrlicht, beginning right from installation and proc...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2011
by Eric Rowell
The HTML5 Canvas Cookbook begins by covering the basics of the HTML5 Canvas API and then progresses by providing advanced techniques for handling features not directly supported by the API such as animation and canvas interactivity. It winds up by providing detailed templates for a few of the most common HTML5 canvas applications - data visualization, game development, and 3D modeling. It will acquaint you ...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2011
by Julie Steele, Noah Iliinsky
With contributions from more than two dozen experts, this book demonstrates why visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understanding. Think of the familiar map of the New York City subway system, or a diagram of the human brain. These older examples have been surpassed by artists, designers, commentato...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2010
by Sal Mangano
Mathematica Cookbook helps you master the application's core principles by walking you through real-world problems. Ideal for browsing, this book includes recipes for working with numerics, data structures, algebraic equations, calculus, and statistics. You'll also venture into exotic territory with recipes for data visualization using 2D and 3D graphic tools, image processing, and music.Although ...
Price: $25.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2010
by Michael Milton
Do you use Excel for simple lists, but get confused and frustrated when it comes to actually doing something useful with all that data? Stop tearing your hair out: Head First Excel helps you painlessly move from spreadsheet dabbler to savvy user.Whether you're completely new to Excel or an experienced user looking to make the program work better for you, this book will help you incorporate Excel into e...
Price: $27.24 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2010
by Joseph Adler
Why learn R? Because it's rapidly becoming the standard for developing statistical software. R in a Nutshell provides a quick and practical way to learn this increasingly popular open source language and environment. You'll not only learn how to program in R, but also how to find the right user-contributed R packages for statistical modeling, visualization, and bioinformatics.The author introduces...
Price: $5.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Ben Fry
How you can take advantage of data that you might otherwise never use? With the help of a downloadable programming environment, this book helps you represent data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more. You'll learn basic visualization principles, how to choose the right kind of display for your purposes, and how to provide interactive features to desig...
Price: $19.98 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007