Posts Tagged ‘ visualizing data

Two new books added to the library…

Got to make use of some 40% off coupons at Barnes & Nobel today:

  • Algorithms in a Nutshell : I’d been eying this book for a while now, finally took the plunge.  I’m particularly interested in their chapters about convex hull generation, and path-finding AI.  The problem-solving techniques in general I find quite fascinating.
  • Visualizing Data : By Ben Fry, one of the co-creators of Processing.  I find this interesting not only in the code-examples behind displaying data to the screen, but the processes behind finding and parsing the data in the first place.  Also serves as a good bridge between Processing and Java, with examples of running Processing in Eclipse (see my post here).