PREFACE 1 SEEING YOUR LIFE IN DATA by Nathan Yau Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) your.flowingdata (YFD) Personal Data Collection Data Storage Data Processing Data Visualization The Point How to Participate 2 THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: KEEPING USERS IN MIND WHEN DESIGNING DATA COLLECTION METHODS by Jonathan Follett and Matthew Holm Introduction: User Empathy Is the New Black The Project: Surveying Customers About a New Luxury Product Specific Challenges to Data Collection Designing Our Solution Results and Reflection 3 EMBEDDED IMAGE DATA PROCESSING ON MARS by.J. M. Hughes Abstract Introduction Some Background To Pack or Not to Pack The Three Tasks Slotting the Images Passing the Image: Communication Among the Three Tasks Getting the Picture: Image Download and Processing Image Compression Downlink, or, Its All Downhill from Here Conclusion 4 CLOUD STORAGE DESIGN IN A PNUTSHELL by Brian F. Cooper, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Utkarsh 5riuastaua Introduction Updating Data Complex Queries Comparison with Other Systems Conclusion 5 INFORMATION PLATFORMS AND THE RISE OF THE DATA SCIENTIST by Jeff Hammerbacher Libraries and Brains Facebook Becomes Self-Aware A Business Intelligence System The Death and Rebirth of a Data Warehouse Beyond the Data Warehouse The Cheetah and the Elephant The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data New Tools and Applied Research MAD Skills and Cosmos Information Platforms As Dataspaces The Data Scientist Conclusion 6 THE GEOGRAPHIC BEAUTY OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE by Jason Dykes and Jo Wood Beauty in Data: Geograph Visualization, Beauty, and Treemaps A Geographic Perspective on Geograph Term Use Beauty in Discovery Reflection and Conclusion 7 DATA FINDS DATA by Jeff Jonas and Lisa Sokol Introduction The Benefits of Just-in-Time Discovery Corruption at the Roulette Wheel Enterprise Discoverability Federated Search Aint All That Directories: Priceless Relevance: What Matters and to Whom? Components and Special Considerations Privacy Considerations Conclusion 8 PORTABLE DATA IN REAL TIME by Jud Valeski Introduction The State of the Art Social Data Normalization Conclusion: Mediation via Gnip 9 SURFACING THE DEEP WEB by Alon Haleuy and Jayant Madhauen What Is the Deep Web? Alternatives to Offering Deep-Web Access Conclusion and Future Work 10 BUILDING RADIOHEADS HOUSE OF CARDS by Aaron Koblin with Valdean Klump How It All Started The Data Capture Equipment The Advantages of Two Data Capture Systems The Data Capturing the Data, aka "The Shoot" Processing the Data Post-Processing" the Data Launching the Video Conclusion 11 VISUALIZING URBAN DATA by Michal Migurski Introduction Background Cracking the Nut Making It Public Revisiting Conclusion 12 THE DESIGN OF SENSE.US by Jeffrey Heer Visualization and Social Data Analysis Data Visualization Collaboration Voyagers and Voyeurs Conclusion 13 WHAT DATA DOESNT DO by Coco Krumme When Doesnt Data Drive? Conclusion 14 NATURAL LANGUAGE CORPUS DATA by Peter Noruig Word Segmentation Secret Codes Spelling Correction Other Tasks Discussion and Conclusion 15 LIFE IN DATA: THE STORY OF DNA by Matt Wood and Ben Blackburne DNA As a Data Store DNA As a Data Source Fighting the Data Deluge The Future of DNA 16 BEAUTIFYING DATA IN THE REAL WORLD by Jean-Claude Bradley, Rajarshi Guha, Andrew Lang, Pierre Lindenbaum, Cameron Ney/on, Antony Williams,and Egon Willighagen The Problem with Real Data Providing the Raw Data Back to the Notebook Validating Crowdsourced Data Representing the Data Online Closing the Loop: Visualizations to Suggest New Experiments Building a Data Web from Open Data and Free Services 17 SUPERFICIAL DATA ANALYSIS: EXPLORING MILLIONS OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES by Brendan OConnor and Lukas Biewald Introduction Preprocessing the Data Exploring the Data Age, Attractiveness, and Gender Looking at Tags Which Words Are Gendered? Clustering Conclusion 18 BAY AREA BLUES: THE EFFECT OF THE HOUSING CRISI! 19 BEAUTIFUL POLITICAL DATA 20 CONNECTING DATA