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Data Visualization: Where (normal) people fall in love with data
The document outlines a presentation by Hjalmar Gislason at the Boston Data Visualization Meetup, focusing on the importance of data visualization and the challenges of publishing numerical data. It discusses the technical requirements and stack used for creating visualizations, emphasizing the need for full control over design, browser compatibility, and server-side rendering. The presentation also compares different visualization tools, specifically Protovis and D3.
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Data Visualization: Where (normal) people fall in love with data
- 1. F I ND A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA Data Visualization - where (normal) people fall in love with data Boston Data Visualization Meetup April 5, 2012
- 2. Hjalmar Gislason Founder and CEO Twitter: @datamarket Slides: http://blog.datamarket.com/
- 3. TOPICS ‣Why visualize data? ...and what we do ‣Our requirements ‣Our approach
- 4. NUMBERS drive ourworld
- 5. Finding and publishing numerical data is HARD
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- 7. “APP STORE” for numbers
- 8. Wasn’t this supposedto be about VISUALIZATION?
- 11. 109 columns x 340 lines = 37.060 cells
- 15. One-off projects vs. generic solutions
- 20. More than 150,000,000 time series
- 21. 23.000+ datasets
- 22. 822 years 1279 - 2100
- 23. SELF- SERVICE data publishing &insights
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- 26. OUR STACK Visualization ??? Web (client) HTML5 / Javascript Web (server) Django Server + Connectors Python Database Postgres
- 27. OUR STACK Visualization ??? Web (client) HTML5 / Javascript Web (server) Django Server + Connectors Python Database Postgres
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- 29. REQUIREMENT Full control oflook, feel and UI
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- 31. REQUIREMENT iOS
- 32. REQUIREMENT Vector based
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- 34. REQUIREMENTS Full control of look, feel and UI Browser compatibility ? iOS Vector based Server-side rendering
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- 37. PROTOVIS Full control oflook, feel and UI Browser compatibility iOS Vector based Server-side rendering
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- 40. PROTOVIS Full control oflook, feel and UI Browser compatibility iOS Vector based Server-side rendering
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- 46. PROTOVIS Browser compatibility IE9 IE <9
- 47. PROTOVIS Browser compatibility IE9 IE <9
- 48. PROTOVIS Browser compatibility IE9 IE <9
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- 51. PROTOVIS Browser compatibility Protovis Shim SVG VML
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- 55. PROTOVIS Full control oflook, feel and UI Browser compatibility iOS Vector based Server-side rendering
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- 59. TOOL for theTASK
- 60. TOPICS ‣Why visualize data? ...and what we do ‣Our requirements ‣Our approach
- 61. F I ND A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA Hjalmar Gislason, founder & CEO Twitter: @datamarket · Facebook: DataMarket · E-mail: hg@datamarket.com