Week 4: Visualization: Tools for, and examples of, Analytics

Here's are the sessions for Strata 2011 - lots of stuff relevant to this course. It's notable to me that there isn't a single session devoted to education, although health care is on the agenda.

3 Relevant publications:

• Beautiful Data
  The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
  By Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher
• Beautiful Visualization
  Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
  By Julie Steele, Noah Iliinsky
• Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
  A hands-on guide for programmers and data scientists
  By Philipp K. Janert

Some additional interesting context:

• What lies ahead: Data
  Tim O'Reilly on the calculus of data, predictive analytics, and why mobile sensors are central to his thinking about the future.
  by Mac Slocum
• Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On
  By Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle
• What is data science?
  Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.
  by Mike Loukides