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THEREIS NO SPOON
The Future of Data Visualization in Rich Internet Applications
D o u g M c C u n ewww.dougmccune.com
This is your @
WHEREIS YOUR SPOON?
Data Visualization will...
Data Visualization will disappear
Data Visualization will become invisible
Data Visualization will be ubiquitous
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
-George Santayana
2005 Google
4 YEARS AGO
1996 MapQuest
13 YEARS AGO
1993 Xerox PARC
First web map 16 YEARS AGO
150 AD Ptolemy
Earliest latitude/longitude map 1,859 YEARS AGO
6,200 BC
First map? 8,200 YEARS AGO
11,600 BC
First map? 13,660 YEARS AGO
12,000 BC
First map? 14,000 YEARS AGO
But we put data on maps!
2009 SpatialKey
1686 Edward Halley
Earliest data map 323 YEARS AGO
2008 New York Times
1826 Charles Dupin
Earliest thematic map 183 YEARS AGO
2009 Stamen Design
CA Stimulus Spending
1851 Charles Minard
158 YEARS AGO
There’s a first time for everything
the
BAR CHART was
INVENTED
1786 William Playfair
Earliest bar chart 223 YEARS AGO
1786 William Playfair
Earliest line chart 223 YEARS AGO
Earliest pie chart 208 YEARS AGO
1801 William Playfair
Earliest chart of change over time 1,059 YEARS AGO
950 Unknown
It’s not all old
Tree map 18 YEARS AGO
1991 Ben Shneiderman
2004 Newsmap
Spark lines 5 YEARS AGO
2004 Edward Tufte
That’s where we’ve been.Where are we going?
Massive Data
3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000bits of information created
In 2008 there were
486 Billion Gigabytes
Visualizing the genome
Circos
Amazon Public Data Sets
Data Set
Human Genome
US Census
US Economic Data 2003-2006
Weather Measurements 1929-2009
US Federal Contracts
Gigabytes
150
50
220
20
180
100+ million geotagged photos
Flickr
500 million tweets
Twitter Dump Infochimps
120 million flights over 20 years
Airline Delays Robert Allison and Rick Wicklin
Your City’s Data
5 years of crime in Washington DC
Drug crimes around schools
San Francisco drug dealing near schools
Your Life’s Data
Your Life Stream
W E ARENOT
PREPARED
Changes in the data are opportunities forINVENTION
introducing
Doug ’s Se l f -Study Data Visual izat ion
Degree
Historical Data VisualizationContemporary InfographicsBasic StatisticsComputer AlgorithmsStatistical ProgrammingDistributed ProgrammingColor TheoryCartographyArtistic Composition
Historical Data Visualization
• Study the greats
• William Playfair, Joseph Minard, Florence Nightingale
• Contemporary
• Edward Tufte, Ben Shneiderman, Jeffrey Heer
Statistical Programming
• R
• MatLab
• SPSS
Distributed Programming
• Amazon EC2
• Map-Reduce
Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce
• Non-relational DBs
Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Tokyo Cabinet
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