The document discusses prototyping apps using real data rather than placeholder text or images. It provides examples of generating realistic datasets representing people moving around towns, places ordered by importance, social connections between people, and networks of groups like politicians, royalty, and comic book characters. The document encourages exploring and coding these kinds of prototypes yourself.

1. Prototyping apps
using real data
Matt Biddulph
@mattb | matt@hackdiary.com

3. no more
lorem ipsum

5. no more
chartjunk

6. prototypes are
boundary objects

12. LA attention heatmap

13. LA driving heatmap

14. Realistic cities
generating a dataset of people
moving around town

20. Realistic ranking
generating a dataset of places
ordered by importance

24. Successfully read 442,775 records from:
"s3://wikipedia-stats/features.txt"
Successfully read 975,017,055 records from:
"s3://wikipedia-stats/pagecounts-2012012*.gz"
in 4 hours, 19 minutes and 32 seconds
using 4 m1.small instances.

25. Hackney 3428
Camden 2498
Tower Hamlets 2378
Newham 1850
Enfield 1830
Croydon 1796
Islington 1624
Southwark 1603
Lambeth 1354
Greenwich 1316
Hammersmith and Fulham 1268
Haringey 1263
London
Harrow 1183 neighbourhoods
Brent 1140
0 1000 2000 3000

26. Realistic social networks
generating a dataset of social
connections between people

31. Politicians
Royalty

32. Tennis
Politicians
Royalty

33. Tennis
Politicians
Professional
wrestling
Royalty

34. Comicbook
characters Tennis
Politicians
Professional
wrestling
Royalty

37. Explore it yourself:
http://biddul.ph/wikipedia-graph
Code it yourself:
http://biddul.ph/where-workshop-code

38. Thanks!
Matt Biddulph
@mattb | matt@hackdiary.com