Data on the Move

Chris Whong

Urbanist, Mapmaker, & Data Junkie

Data Innovation Day

January 23rd, 2013

A bit about me…

Data Solutions Architect

Socrata, Inc.

Democratizing Public Data

Urban Planner

Coder

OPEN CIVIC

GEOSPATIAL

My

Favorit

e

Data

GIS: A Gateway Drug

ArcScene Polygon Extrusion + ACS Data + Custom Camera Tour

Enter Processing!

• Open Source

• Great for Beginners

• Lots of Examples

• Same language as Arduino!

• Vibrant Community

With the right libraries, IT DOES MAPS!

Processing

+

Twitter Data

Processing

+

Bikeshare Data

Processing

+

Transit Data

Animated Maps on the Web

D3.js

+

Leaflet.js

+

Cloudmade

http://chriswhong.com/projects/phillybiketheft

http://chriswhong.com/projects/nycbudget

http://chriswhong.com/projects/nycopendata

http://hdr.undp.org/countries

Tech

Chops

Design

Eye

Vision &

StoryTelling

DataViz

!

Thanks! @chris_whong

https://github.com/chriswhong

http://chriswhong.com

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