Visualisation

20/06/2012

• Visualisation is an end product of a often complex processes

• Visualisation primarily exists to

• To understand and ultimately solve problems

• To educate and inform

• Many audiences

• Huge amounts of data

• The power of the “map”

• Visualisation is also vital in selecting and locating data

Geospatial visualisation

• £11 million DECC and DEFRA future climate predictions from the Met Office

• Over 4TB of data

• Billions of permutations of request

• 4 year development

• For the NE in 2050 – medium emissions

• 1.2 ~ 4 degree rise in summer mean temp (2.5)

• Complex data, many users, millions of end points

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Visualisation • Complex scientific data requires a range of

visualisation techniques

• Visualisation is as important for data access as it is for data output

• Users is a broad church

• Data visualisation and management is going to get tougher

• Sensor data streams • Complex interconnections of data

• Visualisation – and maps have high impacts with stakeholders and policy makers

• Visualisation as a service for users, developers is straightforward