This book teaches you how to design entire interfaces around large, complex data sets with the help of powerful new design and prototyping tool called "Processing". Used by many researchers and companies to convey specific data in a clear and understandable, Processing beta is available free of charge. This book teaches you: The seven stages of visualizing data - acquire, parse, filter, mine, represent, refine, and interact How all data problems begin with a question and ends with narration of a construction that gives a clear answer without the details Some examples of foreign projects with a code to make them work points positive and negative of each representation discussed. The focus is on customization so that each one best fits what you want to convey about your data set the book does not provide ready-made "visualizations" that can be plugged into any data set. Instead, with chapters divided by types of data rather than types of display, you'll learn how to convey the unique nature of each visualization of data it represents - why the data collected, what is interesting about it, and what stories it can tell.