title: Acquiring basic skills working with visualizing/analyzing large data sets
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to learn to be comfortable with large data sets.  I'm a university student, so everything I do is of "nice" size and complexity.  Working on a research project with a professor this semester, and I've had to visualize relationships between a somewhat large (in my experience) data set.  It was a 15 MB CSV file.</p>
  
  <p>I wrote most of my data wrangling in Python, visualized using GNUPlot.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any accessible books or websites on the subject out there?  Bonus points for using Python, more bonus points for a more "basic" visualization system than relying on gnuplot.  Cairo or something, I suppose.</p>
  
  <p>Looking for something that takes me from data mining, to processing, to visualization.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:  I'm more looking for something that will teach me the "big ideas".  I can write the code myself, but looking for techniques people use to deal with large data sets.  I mean, my 15 MB is small enough where I can put everything I would ever need into memory and just start crunching.  What do people do to visualize 5 GB data sets?</p>