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• uxp · May 28, 2011 · Recommends

  …anyone is interested, these books have helped me: Information Dashboard Design: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100162 Visualizing Data: http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Data-Explaining-Processing... Beautiful Data: http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Data-Stories-Elegant-Solutio...

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• pgbovine · Dec 31, 2009 · Recommends

  peter norvig has a great chapter in the O'Reilly book "Beautiful Data" about using naive bayes + a ton of data mined from the web to do fairly good natural language processing. one of his recent themes has been "naive algorithms + lots of training data can often beat sophisticated…

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• mark_l_watson · Jul 3, 2010 · Recommends

  …a fun book, and Peter Norvig's article was very interesting. There is only so much work that any of us as individuals can do, so I find myself vicariously enjoying other people's work, in books like Beautiful Data, success stories on HN and Reddit, etc.

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• Rickasaurus · Nov 27, 2010 · Recommends

  I'm really enjoying O'Reilly's Beautiful * series. Instead being one of of your run of the mill how-to books they contain stories about some really cool projects. One of my favorites in Beautiful Data was about the architecture of the Mars lander. Enthralling stuff.

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• hsuresh · Nov 29, 2010 · Mentions

  Beautiful Data (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157111/) sounds interesting.

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• heresy · May 23, 2010 · Mentions

  …plumbing, infrastructure, networking, understanding how things fit together. Virtually everything interests me (perhaps that is a problem?). My reading queue, to give you an idea of my interests: * Beautiful Data * 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know * Learning iPhone Programming * Hello, Android * Programming Clojure * C# in Depth (when it's released) So, HN: Project Suggestions? Has anyone else returned…

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• danso · Sep 19, 2013 · Mentions

  FYI, I found the OP while re-reading Norvig's classic on spell-checker design, in which he mentions the chapter in passing: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html The chapter is part of a book, Beautiful Data, and Norvig has a separate page for the source code: http://norvig.com/ngrams/

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• rodrigo · Sep 1, 2009 · Mentions

  Halfway into "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and im liking it so far, specially its hindsights on philosophy and rationality. "Beautiful Data", a couple of chapters, i like the "Beautiful" series cause you can take any chapter as a more or less isolated topic.

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• TY · Jul 21, 2010 · Mentions

  …previous wildly successful promo, enter code BXGXF at the checkout and get 50% off your books (must be an even number of books). I'm thinking about buying "Search Patterns: Design for Discovery" and "Beautiful Data".

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• abecedarius · Mar 1, 2023 · Mentions

  Norvig wrote a similar expansion in his chapter for the book Beautiful Data (along with several other small programs to do fun things with natural language corpus data). You can find it with a web search. (His version didn't use a trie, because Python's built-in dicts are much…

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