The Processing program language looks like an interesting tool for developing powerful data visualizations, or at least the skills and insight to do so with another language. Its author Ben Fry has several books about the language for various uses, including Visualizing Data. The book has few graphs of "visualized" data than I'd expect, and based on the introduction seems to emphasize Fry's philosophy and theory for all stages of data acquisition, analysis, and visualization.
From Wikipedia:
"Processing is an open source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context, and to serve as the foundation for electronic sketchbooks. The project was initiated in 2001 by Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry, both formerly of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab. One of the stated aims of Processing is to act as a tool to get non-programmers started with programming, through the instant gratification of visual feedback. The language builds on the Java programming language, but uses a simplified syntax and graphics programming model."
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