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THERE
  IS NO
  SPOON
The Future of Data Visualization
 in Rich Internet Applications


        Doug McCune
        www.dougmccune.com
This is your @
WHERE
IS 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 ever ything
the

BAR CHART
   was

INVENTED
1786 William Playfair




Earliest bar chart      223 YEARS AGO
1786 William Playfair




Earliest line chart     223 YEARS AGO
1801 William Playfair




Earliest pie chart      208 YEARS AGO
950 Unknown




Earliest chart of change over time   1,059 YEARS AGO
It’s not all old
1991 Ben Shneiderman




Tree map               18 YEARS AGO
2004 Newsmap
2004 Edward Tufte




Spark lines         5 YEARS AGO
That’s where we’ve been.
Where are we going?
Massive Data
In 2008 there were

3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000
        bits of information created
486 Billion Gigabytes
Circos




Visualizing the genome
Amazon Public Data Sets
Data Set                         Gigabytes
Human Genome                     150
US Census                        50
US Economic Data 2003-2006       220
Weather Measurements 1929-2009   20
US Federal Contracts             180
Flickr




100+ million geotagged photos
Twitter Dump Infochimps




500 million tweets
Airline Delays Robert Allison and Rick Wicklin




120 million flights over 20 years
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
WE
  ARE
  NOT
PREPARED
Changes in the data
are opportunities for
INVENTION
introducing

D o u g ’s S e l f - S t u d y
Data Visualization
        Degree
Historical Data Visualization
Contemporary Infographics
Basic Statistics
Computer Algorithms
Statistical Programming
Distributed Programming
Color Theory
Cartography
Artistic 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
THANK
 YOU
DOUG@DOUGMcCUNE.COM

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