THEREIS NO SPOON

The Future of Data Visualization in Rich Internet Applications

D o u g M c C u n ewww.dougmccune.com

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WHEREIS 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

11,600 BC

First map? 13,660 YEARS AGO

12,000 BC

First map? 14,000 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 everything

the

BAR CHART was

INVENTED

1786 William Playfair

Earliest bar chart 223 YEARS AGO

1786 William Playfair

Earliest line chart 223 YEARS AGO

Earliest pie chart 208 YEARS AGO

1801 William Playfair

Earliest chart of change over time 1,059 YEARS AGO

950 Unknown

It’s not all old

Tree map 18 YEARS AGO

1991 Ben Shneiderman

2004 Newsmap

Spark lines 5 YEARS AGO

2004 Edward Tufte

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

Massive Data

3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000bits of information created

In 2008 there were

486 Billion Gigabytes

Visualizing the genome

Circos

Amazon Public Data Sets

Data Set

Human Genome

US Census

US Economic Data 2003-2006

Weather Measurements 1929-2009

US Federal Contracts

Gigabytes

150

50

220

20

180

100+ million geotagged photos

Flickr

500 million tweets

Twitter Dump Infochimps

120 million flights over 20 years

Airline Delays Robert Allison and Rick Wicklin

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

W E ARENOT

PREPARED

Changes in the data are opportunities forINVENTION

introducing

Doug ’s Se l f -Study Data Visual izat ion

Degree

Historical Data VisualizationContemporary InfographicsBasic StatisticsComputer AlgorithmsStatistical ProgrammingDistributed ProgrammingColor TheoryCartographyArtistic 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

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DOUG@DOUGMcCUNE.COM