8 Great Gifts for Your Data Geek
The gift-giving season is here, and you're probably wondering what to get everybody. You can only give so many neck ties, and you gave gift cards to Best Buy last year. So here's some help. Here are some gifts that will rock the socks off any data geek.
FlowingPrints - Obviously an excellent choice. I'm a little biased, yes, but still great :). Use the code gimme50off to get 50% when you buy two prints or more. Deal ends this Friday.
The Visual Miscellaneum - This book covers a wide variety of topics with lots of pretty infographics. Read my glowing review.
Data Flow: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design - More design-focused than the above with many many examples from various visualization people and designers. Read my review here.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - It's Edward Tufte's first book. Always a crowd-pleaser.
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions - Exactly what the title says. It's a collection of essays from experts in the data arena, except for the first chapter. That was written by some lamebrain.
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists - Maybe your data geek is just getting into visualization. Processing is a great place to start, and this book provides plenty of guidance.
WallStats - The most recent 2010 infographic poster for where you tax dollars go. Get 50% off two or more posters when you use the code flowingdata.
Ambient Devices - Get all data all the time with these devices. The orb is my favorite.
Got any more data gift ideas? Let us know in the comments.
Visit datavisualization.ch for more ideas on how you can surprise your data fiend this season.
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Great list, thanks for sharing…! Don’t forget the We Feel Fine book by Jonathan Harris though http://wefeelfine.org/book
For the beginning programmer, Daniel Shiffman’s “Learning Processing” book really is one of the best books out there. It may not take people quite as far as Fry’s book, but the introduction to programming is fantastic.
What about this for the female data geeks;
http://thisisplot.com/
You know, data g33ks need not consume more data for the holidays!
What data geeks need are a break from the 0101011010 grind. So – why not a gc for a massage or a trip to the local banya? Individual flesh pleasures are about as orthogonal to aggregate number-crunching as you can get — so perhaps it’s the perfect way to balance things out for the favorite nerd bait in your life.
Signed,
I want to go to the banya in Helsinki
Sometimes the best gift is not an thing but rather an idea: how about: Tell them to read flowingdata.com at least every week, if not every day :-)))
best. gift. ever.