Jeff Hammerbacher

For an interaction designer, this edited collection has a refreshing approach: It starts from the concept of data, and develops many aspects -- from database organization and query efficiency to strategies for guerilla data collection projects, from accessing the deep web to visualization and digital data-based arts. After reading it, my sense was that I had received a glimpse of important concepts and concerns in several specialized fields related to my own -- and I also dog-eared a couple of chapters as immediately relevant to future work in information visualization and open-data aggregation.… (mehr)