Beautiful Data from O’Reilly is now available! The book is a collection of articles from 39 data practitioners including Michal Migurski, Aaron Koblin, Jeff Heer, and plenty others, sharing their experiences with data, their methods, their thoughts, and most importantly, how beautiful data really is.
I was fortunate enough to write one of the chapters: Seeing Your Life in Data. I describe my experiences developing for the Personal Environmental Impact Report and the beginnings of your.flowingdata. I’m looking forward to reading all of the other contributions.
Two Free Copies to Give Away
Lucky for you I have two free e-book copies to give away. Want to win one of them? Leave a comment below by the end of today – July 31, 11:59 EST. Let’s go with your favorite food this week. One entry per person please. Good luck.
P.S. If you’re not one of the two winners, don’t fret. Use the following discount code on the O’Reilly site for a 30% discount: ABF09.
Congrats, Nathan!! Would love some kiwi just about now!!!
Caprese salad is topping the list for me this week. Keep up the great posts Nathan!
Sounds exciting. Congratulations! Hmm, my current favorite is lamb vindaloo.
Nathan, I’d love the book. My favorite food is some authentic Spanish albondigas with a glass of Spanish tempranillo.
Cheers.
Blue cheese hamburger for this week, and congratulations on the book!
I am a fan of rootbeer floats.
Pabellon Criollo- A traditional dish from my homeland, Venezuela.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabell%C3%B3n_criollo
Keep up the good work: its awesome!
this week I am mostly eating cumquats
Looks like a great book Nathan.
For me it’s got to be a kai pad kra prao (Thai Chicken with Chili and Basil!)
Neat! I can’t get enough of Taco Bell this week
drat! I just ordered Beautiful Data yesterday!
But congrats on the book, Nathan! Can’t wait to read it.
I just mowed through a bowl of fresh grilled tomato salsa, using these gigantic heirloom beefsteak tomatoes I’m growing, charred on the BBQ with some fresh jalapenos, onions, and garlic, then blended up with some salt, lemon juice, and my buddy’s secret smoked chipotle powder.
Congrats! My fav food this week: Tonkatsu from the restaurant next door, ayce white rice, cabbage and miso soup included!
Excellent !! I’d love to have some watermelon now
Another reason to buy this book: proceeds benefit the Sunlight Foundation and Creative Commons, two worthy data causes. http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/05/04/beautiful-data/
That said, I’d be happy to take a free one. Favorite food at present – two words which set heats & pallets a flutter this time of year – Crab Cake.
Congrats on being published, sir.
Good point, Kevin. None of the contributors received compensation to write articles, and all proceeds go to a worthy area. So everyone who contributed wrote because they believe in beautiful data. Good to know if you’re considering the book.
I’d love me some doughnuts… any kind really.
Would love to get one.
Oh man, oh man… I’ve been reading *about* this book since it was announced.
Pad thai. Tiramisu. Not in the same meal.
Looks like a great book! :) In for an entry.
i’d love a kiwi right now. will actually go down to the kitchen and see if we have some.
great site, great work, love great viz – keep it up!
Congratulation! I’m a Ph. D. student of complex network, especially online social network at KAIST, Korea.
I’m a big fan of this blog, and it is fantastic that I’d receive this book. =)
Congrats! Can’t wait to read it!
Why, chocolate, of course.
my favorite food to make is fried rice. it has the potential to use up pretty much any leftovers, and it’s always delicious.
Great stuff, can’t wait to read it!
Preferably for free!
Looks interesting…
Hi… I’m looking for doing Phd in Data Visual Stuff. Can I get this e-book to read ? Also suggest me some more books or Starting point.
Thanks,
Karthi
[email protected]
Oh the book looks lovely! Can’t wait to take a look at it.
And as for my two-cents in this food discussion, how about some french fries drizzled with truffle oil? To die for.
Chalupas with homemade refried beans and shredded pork on corn tortillas fried in coconut oil topped with Queso Fresco. Mmm good.
Congrats :)
Couscous is yummy and super easy to make. Constitutes at least 10% of my daily diet.
Sharp Canadian Cheddar with a strong Cabernet
ooho… what a treat!
green cabbage + onions + tomatos + avocados (and whatever else is left in the fridge) is the local drug :)
miska
Squid tacos!
Quinoa, redcurrent, onion salad. Perfect combination for a light lunch.
Good luck with the book. I look forward to reading it, either freely or purchased. :)
Lasagnia .. paired with good wine
My favourite food this week is thai style pineapple fried rice. Served in a visually appealing pineapple. And if possible, I’d like the distribution of cashew nuts and pineapples to be uniformly distributed across all layers of the fried rice.
Now, if only I can put a graph to display the intricacies of the perfect fried rice.
nachos.
My favorite food this week is my wife’s chocolate crapes. Mmmm….
Thanks for the top-notched blog!
All the talk about National Cheesecake Day yesterday has me craving vanilla bean cheesecake. Such deliciousness!
I really like pitas with hummus and sliced pickles. Sounds gross, but it’s really good.
Oh, and I must have this book!
My Favorite food is Nasi Lemak Ayam Goreng,
It’s a Malaysian delicacy and it’s rice cooked in coconut, served with a nice spicy sauce the locals call ‘Sambal’. To top it off with fried achovies, peanuts and cucumber. For added effect, chicken is thrown into the mix.
Macaroni for my, but not the Italian one, a secret recipe for Indonesian macaroni :)
This week… ripe canteloupe melon. mmmmmmm.
:-D
i need this book. this is serious dataaa!
hope i’m lucky todayyy!!!
The book seems very interesting.
I had a very good pasta with pesto, dried tomatoes, olive oil and parmesan cheese this week.
Thanks for this opportunity.
I think I’ll take a “petit salé aux lentilles” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A885495)
Would be nice to win this great book.
3 times asian food, my new record of this week.
Wow, congrats. I would love to win a copy! :)
Beef Panang! Keep up the great work!
Great! do you want some pizza?
Congrats on the chapter!
I’d have to go with a nice plate of Haggis followed by a dessert of Jaffa Cakes ;).
Congrats! I’m going to go with lemongrass pork chop. =)
Looks like a neat book! Definitely a topic that is neglected. So often the ‘magic’ behind a visualization is in massaging the data versus the presentation.
Chicken tikka masala for me…
I had potato skins for lunch from my workplace’s cafeteria, that had melted cheese, cream cheese and sprinkled bits of bacon. MMmmmm.
In Anchorage, Alaska, prime dip with ah juice is where it’s at.
Nice one Nathan! I look forwards to reading your chapter.
May favorite food is baked ziti, which would have tasted great had the sauce not been bad :(
Congratulations! Also to Matt, Ben, Pierre and Egon (waves)
Promotional code doesn’t work in the UK :-( So will disclose one of my favourite foods here: Gentse Waterzooi. Google is your friend.
Also in the UK so let’s hope I win one of the free ones :)
I would love to get one copy from this book. My favourite food is gulash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash
Greetings from Romania.
Cognac flamed belgian endives.
Spaghetti Bolognese
Spaghetti squash with tomatos and tons of fresh herbs, all from my own garden. Blueberry lassi for dessert. Cheers! :)
I’d like to enter the draw for the book.
Sounds fascinating.
Spicy Italian Sausage!
Great site! Favorite food: Poutine at Au Pied du Cochon in Montreal – French fries topped with cheese curd, but instead of gravy . . . foie gras. It’ll kill me, but that’s the way I want to go.
This book will appear in Russia only in 5 year. Not let me spend my young years hunting for this book! Please, send it to me now! )))
and about food: this week I tries strawbery jam, cooked with bisilic and mint. It was something!
Book arrived yesterday and I read it last night. Well worth getting….especially for the perspectives of some of the more data oriented folks like Jeff Jonas.
Good job.
Congrats Nathan.
I’ve been hankering for a delicious dessert known as Charlotte Rousse this week, though only my aunt can really make it properly…
/sigh…
chinese ribs – twice this week aleady fantastic
Loving spinach this week – specifically baby spinach salads and palak paneer.
Meow :3
Coffee gelato – Can’t wait to see the book.
Wiener Schnitzel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_schnitzel
(its impressive what you can learn about your favorite food from wikipedia ;-) )
Fish, any kind. I wrote a chapter in Beautiful Testing and am looking forward to it joining O’Reilly’s beauty series in October.
Watermelon!
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings – no competition!
A feast for the eyes
Congrats! Looks like a great book!
Escargot!
I’d love a nice cold roasted chicken, some grapes, some cheese, good bread, and this book
Mmmmmm… Black raspberry pie.
My favorite food this week was a strange dish consisting of organic rotini, organic black-eyed peas, turkey sausage, and marinara sauce. I’m not sure what it was called, but it was delicious!
Durian, the king of fruits.
i would love some o’reilly food right now. i’m working on data visualization in the course of my thesis right now.
need!
Hummus: Like a good visualization tool its: tasty, nutritious, easy to make and endlessly flexible.
Peach BBQ Rubbed Salmon, great stuff
looking forward to the book! Have to go with straight up CEREAL! It’s portable, profitable (ROI for price / value) and applies to ANY time of the day!
roasted vegetable lasagna!
Yakiniko: mmmmhhh just delicious with some sushi as starter.
i’d take a kiwifruit, but a kiwi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi) seems a little odd…
Cool, I actually read the post when I can enter for the drawing!!! Favorite food is a sushi salmon platter-nigiri salmon and spicy salmon rolls. Is it lunch time yet?
The cover has already build my expectations!
Lamb, in all variations:)
mmmm beans and rice.
My favorite food: Perfectly cooked oatmeal, with brown sugar, craisins, and toasted almonds.
YFD tells me I eat a lot of hotdogs and oatmeal. But pie is my favorite, too many contenders for best variety.
Is it wrong to admit that my favorite food is cereal? Still on a quest to find the best raisin bran.
I’ll go with sushi.
It’s a toss up between pink lady apples and goat cheese. Both at once is bliss.
Fillet of clown! Looking forward to seeing the book, one way or another.
Yellow curry (chicken)…yum.
Excited to check this one out! How about a double dipped Portillo’s beef?!! :D
One of my favourite fruits is mango
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango
Greetings from Brasil \o
Seared hobo with clown sauce. Though unsure of the wine to accompany.
This looks great!
I’ve been craving portobello mushrooms this week.
Beauty will save the world… compliments!
My favorite food would this week would have to be corn on the cob — bright green husks still damp from being picked this morning with golden silk tassels. A bicolor variety for me, Silver queen for my husband and a mix of yellow and bicolor for my 2 boys. And butter. Lots of butter. : )
Toasted sourdough smeared with fresh, stinky pesto and two honkin’ slices of expensive-ass yuppie farmer’s market tomato on top. Lightly salted. Unbelievably delicious.
my favorite food this week is donuts. can you say chocolate glazed? omg i think i’m gonna go eat a donut right now.
Yea! What a lovely book; I can’t wait to see it in person.
(Oh, and as far as favorite foods.. I’d pr’bly have to go with swimming rama.)
pozole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozole
Congratulations. I look forward to reading it.
Congrats.
A nice ripe mango
Favorite food this week is the fresh salad from my garden! Lettuce, arugula, peas, carrots, and radishes so far. The carrots are gorgeous — we grew rainbow colored carrots this year. And I’d love a copy of your book.
Homemade Peach / blueberry pie, it was yummy!
congrats! fav food this week: jalapeño + cream cheese naan bread
This week, leftovers: spicy italian sausage, onions, peppers, homemade pesto, and some ridiculously large noodles “recommended by Martha Stewart”
Had some wonderful Sukhothai this week. And every week. Often twice.
Congrats. Would love to get a copy of the book from you instead of amazon!
Sounds like an interesting read, Nathan.
I just returned from my hometown, Buffalo, NY where I made an obligatory stop at the Anchor Bar. Today I am craving yet another dozen chicken wings hot (served with a big bowl of Bleu cheese and a stack of fresh celery and carrots).
Favorite food of the week was a fantastic halibut with huge black beans served at the restaurant Palate in Glendale, California..
Congrats on the book. Anything with guacamole sounds good right now.
Ben & Jerry’s Fossil Fuel ice cream (sweet cream ice cream with chocolate cookie pieces, fudge dinosaurs, & fudge swirl). I eat it as a meal.
And since we’re all about data visualization here, note the nutritional info charts:
http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-ben-jerrys-fossil-fuel-original-i118858
Favorite food was the vegan stir-fry I made last night, which I can’t wait to have for lunch.
It basically consisted of whatever I had on hand at the time:
a mix of medium and long grain rice, a red onion, a carrot, some broccoli, cauliflower, a bit of ginger root, some seasoned soy strips, sliced water chestnuts, mushrooms, stir-fry sauce and a couple cubes of vegetable broth. I fried the crap out of it and ended up eating it with a spoon because I was just out of clean forks!
Delicious! Also congrats on the book! Looks like a good read!
Awesome! I’d love to win one!
I have to go with real mexican (not tex-mex): Pozole
My all-time favorite food ever since I can remember is breaded chicken breasts (chicken schnitzel), white rice, and fried plantains. It is a blend of european with latin american cuisine!
Congrats,
Marck in DC
Fav Fodd: Curry
Fav Food: curry
Congratulations, the cover really is beautiful! can’t wait to dig in the data topics. I think its steak time, a nice juicy one that will melt in your mouth good, with some grilled veggies and a bold malbec—is it lunchtime yet! o wait i guess i have to wait till dinner for the wine…
enjoy your success, can’t wait to dig in!
Look forward to reading your chapter!
I hope to get either enchiladas and/or spicy chile rellenos!
Oh yeah, can’t forget the beer!
Going off of a recent gelato binge… anything involving avocado and fruit. (Best ever, but never replicated: avocado honey orange gelato. Creamy cold sweet goodness was completely and totally optimized)
Looking forward to reading the book. I have been digging pure chunky almond butter lately.
The book looks awesome! My favorite this week is chocolate chip cookies.
pounds and pounds of boiled crawfish
congrats!
Chicken Tikka Masala over balsmati rice & hot garlic naan bread.
Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream for dessert (sorry, couldn’t resist)
And the book looks great ! Hope I win :-) :-)
Have a nice weekend…..
Pad Thai it is for me; made at home from scratch with them 21 ingredients!!!
First of all – congratulations for this site, this is an amazing source of inspiration and thinking material.
My favorite food is a layered risotto with goat cheese,mushroom,spinach and pesto.
– prepare your rice with some herbs and the mushroom ( cut into pieces)
– in each plate :
– add a layer of rice (as if it were a slice of bread – you can use a can opened on both side to get the cylinder shape, and simply pop a .3 inch slice)
– add a some spinach
– add a slice of goat cheese
– add some pesto
– repeat 2 to 3 times
Enjoy !
I could go for a free book and a slice of pizza from the place down the street from where I live in DC.
Though I might have to try the recipe above. That sounds excellent.
There’s nothing like a French live snail salad for starters, followed by a toothpaste sandwich on white bread. And then for desert, a nice French live snail salad.
Eggplant lasagna!
http://www.dlife.com/diabetes/diabetic-recipes/detailed-analysis/Cheesy-Eggplant-Lasagna/r3804.html
ooh. calamari.
niice!
It’s gotta be pizza.
I’m feeling a desire for some kebabs and chickpeas.
Pad Kee Mao, or just about anything else Thai and spicy.
Post.
My top food this week has been a terrific vegetable lasagna. Absolutely scrumptious.
I just had the most delicious passionfruit-cherry sorbet from a local ice cream shop. It’s my favorite for the day, at least.
Just a salad.
Hi, real Russian pancakes are my favs :)
Hamburger with swiss and mushrooms
Hawaiian Spam Musubi and Kalua Pork.. delightful!
Yellow curry anything.
Buckeyes!
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Buckeyes-I/Detail.aspx
I’ll be looking for beautiful data at the Ecological Society of America meeting this week. And I can eat olives by the jarful.
I could go for some cashew nut chicken!
Sounds like a great book! Typical Belgian food 10.000 km away from there in Colombia: Belgian Fries (homemade), Steak, salad, mayonnaise (homemade too) and Belgian Beer (Leffe)!
Try to find a frying machine, good oil and potatoes in Bogota and you’ll understand how unforgetable was that meal!
Chocolate! Its the only food group.
mmm, takoyaki. fried octopus balls!
http://travelswithmb.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/takoyaki.jpg
I’m new to your blog, but loving it every time you put up a post. My favorite is pizza, the world’s most perfect food.
cheese curds, pickles, and a beer…or something…
Congratulations. I can’t wait to take a look at this. And I’m a Maui girl; I love Spam musubi.
Looks like a beautiful and interesting book, congrats — and gimme! :)
– Gulli
… whoops, and my favorite food is easily sushi!
It’s Friday! B-B-B-B-BEEEEER!!!!
Heck yes! Would love to win a copy~
My favorite food is blueberries! Yum!
Have to echo Scott Drzyzga — I could live on hot wings with blue cheese dressing. Congrats on the book!
My favorite found this week? Sushi, because I can’t seem to find anything better in my little corner of Harvard Square.
Gotta start making my own sandwiches, though.
Great blog. Nice gifts. Do you consider sangria a food? ;)
Noodle soup!! I watched Kung Fu Panda recently and it never fails to make hungry during the noodle soup scenes :-)
Congrats on the chapter …. Would like to get one of the book
Visualization of data is important to problem solving. Sign me up!
Count me in for the free book.
Chicago deep-dish pizza.
Homemade pizza and a bottle of wine.
Home made blueberry muffins (with the blueberries picked by my brother in northern Newfoundland) topped with some thick organic yogurt (also home made) and a drizzle of canadian maple syrup.
Book cover looks tasty too!
Conch frittes.
Now I’m absolutely starving.
My favorite meal this week was buckwheat pancakes with sour cream and spiced almond fruit butter.
snow crab of course! congrats!
Virtually any combination of chocolate and peanut butter is a sure win.
Forget the food….I want the statistics. I flunked stat in graduate school and swore that this would never happen again! I LOVE your email and I always turn out smarter when I analyze your data.
Please pick me….it will make up for the F and raise my self-esteem a whole lot!
That book looks fantastic!!
It will be great to having it here, in Barcelona!
BTW, I love crepes!! ;)
hot roasted turkey on white Wonderbread with smashed potatoes and gravy++. yeah!
hello. I could really go for some currywurst and pommes frites.
i’m really into asparagus lately
Visually delicious cover!
Food: I live near Michigan, and it’s prime blueberry season. I can’t get enough…
Smoked salmon pizza!
I can’t wait to see this book.
It’s been a very hot week out here, so I’ve been loving cold noodles with chicken and sesame dressing.
Thanks!
was distracted with kids and didn’t get to comment earlier… if you’re picking instead of just giving to the first two, I would love to be considered. Starting grad school for an MSSA concentrated in Community and Social Development at Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and I would love to read your book (and encourage classmates/staff to read it too). Not sure if data presentation is going to be part of the training, but Cleveland Institute of Art is on the same campus so I’m hoping to cobble together my own learning on this as needed.
oops, favorite food this week… brussel sprouts – halved, parboiled, then pan-seared cut-side down in a little olive oil until they caramelize, then hit with just a little salt and pepper.
Sour Patch Kids!
I’ve been looking forward to this book!
Let’s see, my favorite food this week is a chicken and grilled vegetable burrito.
Mine’s a turkish one called Manti!
hmm…my favorite food is alligator jerky!
August corn and tomatoes.
If you’re serious about food, you’ll avoid making favourites of the numbers . . . . e.g. 1521 Polyethylene glycol 8000 (antifoaming agent)
My favourite is lunch in Australia — please send me a copy of the book.
I am a big fan of sushi especially fugo!