Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On beauty / Noah Iliinsky -- Once upon a stacked time series / Matthias Shapiro -- Wordle / Jonathan Feinberg -- Color : the Cinderella of data visualization / Michael Driscoll -- Mapping information : redesigning the New York City subway map / Eddie Jabbour, as told to Julie Steele -- Flight patterns : a deep dive / Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump -- Your choices reveal who you are : mining and visualizing social patterns / Valdis Krebs -- Visualizing the U.S. Senate social graph (1991-2009) / Andrew Odewahn -- The big picture : search and discovery / Todd Holloway -- Finding beautiful insights in the chaos of social network visualizations / Adam Perer -- Beautiful history : visualizing Wikipedia -- Turning a table into a tree : growing parallel sets into a purposeful project / Robert Kosara -- The design of "X" by "Y" / Moritz Stefaner -- Revealing matrices / Maximilian Schich -- The was 1994: data exploration with the NYTimes Article Search API / Jer Thorp -- A day in the life of the New York TImes / Michael Young and Nick Bilton -- Immersed in unfolding complex systems / Lance Putnam, ... [et al.] -- Postmortem visualization: the real gold standard / Anders Persson -- Animation for visualization: opportunities and drawbacks / Danyel Fisher -- Visualization: indexed / Jessica Hagy.