Multipurpose Room

Data Viz: Why Now?

Michal Migurski.

• Reason #1 — Data Got Cheaper
• Map of the Market (1998) - treemap view of stock market.
• Newmap – Markos Weskamp – also treemap
• FundRace – Michael Frumin, Eyebeam
• Red or Blue by Gravity Monkey – Phone App to see red or green of GSP from phone
• Historyflow Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas– looking at WikiPedia changes
• Phyllotaxy by Jim Bumbgardner aka KrazyDad (Flickr)
• Related Tab Browser (Flickr)
• Reason #2 – Flash Got Better
• Gapminder – Visualizing World Development
• Digg Labs – for Digg.com called Swarm – get people to look at hidden stories -> API coming for digg.com
• Etsy — Jared Tarbell – shop by color
• Flash Wins — 2004 Presidental Election graphic maps
• One Use – Geography – lots of public info in US
• Election Maps – U. Michigan – did the Purple America Map
• Mappr — Stamen Design – looking at Route 66 and geotags
• OpenStreetMap – Tom Carden in UK
• OpenData – free software is useless without data
• Another Use:  sousvallence (??)
• Sparklines in very dense way. See product: StressEraswer
• Attention – Stamen
• Trixie Tracker – MacNeill and Egan – information about your infant
• Week in Review – bunch of people in LA get together over beers and put it on paper
• Resources
• Tableau Software. Show you the best type of display
• http://uxweek06.stamen.com – deck for presentation

posted by Ray @ Thursday, August 17, 2006