The Future of Data Visualization - RIAdventure 2009

THERE IS NO SPOON The Future of Data Visualization in Rich Internet Applications Doug McCune www.dougmccune.com

This is your @

WHERE IS 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

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 ever ything

the BAR CHART was INVENTED

1786 William Playfair Earliest bar chart 223 YEARS AGO

1786 William Playfair Earliest line chart 223 YEARS AGO

1801 William Playfair Earliest pie chart 208 YEARS AGO

950 Unknown Earliest chart of change over time 1,059 YEARS AGO

It’s not all old

1991 Ben Shneiderman Tree map 18 YEARS AGO

2004 Newsmap

2004 Edward Tufte Spark lines 5 YEARS AGO

That’s where we’ve been. Where are we going?

Massive Data

In 2008 there were 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000 bits of information created

486 Billion Gigabytes

Circos Visualizing the genome

Amazon Public Data Sets Data Set Gigabytes Human Genome 150 US Census 50 US Economic Data 2003-2006 220 Weather Measurements 1929-2009 20 US Federal Contracts 180

Flickr 100+ million geotagged photos

Twitter Dump Infochimps 500 million tweets

Airline Delays Robert Allison and Rick Wicklin 120 million ﬂights over 20 years

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

WE ARE NOT PREPARED

Changes in the data are opportunities for INVENTION

introducing D o u g ’s S e l f - S t u d y Data Visualization Degree

Historical Data Visualization Contemporary Infographics Basic Statistics Computer Algorithms Statistical Programming Distributed Programming Color Theory Cartography Artistic 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

THANK YOU DOUG@DOUGMcCUNE.COM

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