This document discusses visualizing flux and storytelling with time, space, and torque. It provides examples of maps that incorporate temporal data including maps of rivers over time, shrinking lakes in Argentina from 1986 to present, and urban sprawl from 1984 to 2011. The document also discusses inspirations from NASA, artist Tom Sachs, and researcher Sara Hendren. It outlines capabilities of CartoDB like importing and managing data, customizing maps, and crisis mapping. Finally, it discusses new mapping features from CartoDB including telling stories with torque and integrating with other datasets and APIs.

1. VISUALIZING
FLUX
Aurelia Moser, CartoDB | @auremoser
aurelia@cartodb.com
storytelling with time, space, and
torque

2. the rate of flow of a property per unit area, which has the
dimensions[quantity]·[time]−1·[area]−1.[2]
flux

3. us river map, cartodb, tinyurl.com/river-cdbmap

4. iceland isomap, cartodb, tinyurl.com/cdb-iceland

5. indian election map, cartodb, http://tinyurl.com/cdb-indiatweet

6. math model that combines space and time into a
single interwoven continuum;
a manifold consisting of “events” which are described
by some type of coordinate system.
spacetime

7. respect
spacetime

11. problem

12. utility

13. code

14. product

16. http://landquest.internewskenya.org/
problem

17. brazil-election
utility

18. code

19. product

20. live data, import api and remote sync

21. inspiration: space/time
how we think about software

22. nasa
tom sachs
sara hendren

23. nasa
tom sachs
sara hendren

24. inspiration: nasa
science, stellar photos, landsat magic

25. mapping urban sprawl
1984 2011

26. 2013
epecuén: shrinking
lakes
1986

27. ~ Todd Schroeder,
USDA Forest Service,
2014
“Now that the entire Landsat
archive is freely available it has
become economically feasible to
monitor disturbance over large
areas using satellite time series.”

28. nasa
tom sachs
sara hendren

29. inspiration: tom sachs
artist, architect, urban hacker

30. space program: mars, tom sachs, armory 2012

31. “our space program is
expensive, slow, and
crappy and that’s why it’s
magic”
~ Tom Sachs

32. nasa
tom sachs
sara hendren

33. inspiration: sara hendren
researcher, designer, Harvard GSD

34. accessible icon project, sara hendron et al, moma, 2011

35. “accessible design is universal design”

36. maps as digital prosthetics:
making the city and its data more accessible

37. citizen cartography
what can you do with cartodb?

38. manage + import data

40. Manage + Import Data

41. query + customize maps

42. crisis + crowd-mapping
humanitarian relief and mythic maps

43. port au prince, haiti, 2010 before/after on OSM

46. unreliable power
unreliable infrastructure
hostile environments

47. http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/

48. Bhutan, 2014, via Google Maps

53. apps that change the world
projects we support

54. ngo aid map, cartodb, http://ngoaidmap.org/

55. global forest watch, cartodb, http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

56. illustreets econ report, http://illustreets.co.uk/

57. fires in the amazon (2012-2014), http://infoamazonia.org/projects/fire/

58. super-nova
new mapping features + coming soon!

59. telling stories with
torque

60. las vegas tourist traffic, cartodb, tinyurl.com/cdb-tourist

61. torque snowplow heatmaps, cartodb,
tinyurl.com/snow-cdb

62. more open data

63. more projections

64. more tutorials

65. more basemaps

66. more apis

67. odyssey.js

71. historical lakes, odyssey @cartodb, bl.ocks.org/auremoser

72. more experiments

73. grants: nonprofit + startup

74. more partnerships: spacetime.nypl.org

75. more integrations: gdelt

76. hi-res satellite captures

77. 1979 2011

78. make human maps
account for flux
respect spacetime

79. thank you!
@auremoser
aurelia@cartodb.com