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A presentation by DataMarket's founder and CEO, Hjalmar Gislason at a Boston Data Visualization Meetup on April 5, 2012
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F I N D A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA
April 5, 2012Boston Data Visualization Meetup
Data Visualization- where (normal) people fall in love with data
Founder and CEO
HjalmarGislason
Twitter: @datamarketSlides: http://blog.datamarket.com/
‣Why visualize data? ...and what we do
‣Our requirements
‣Our approach
TOPICS
drive our worldNUMBERS
Finding and publishingnumerical data is
HARD
for numbersGOOGLE
for numbers“APP STORE”
Wasn’t this supposed to be about
VISUALIZATION?
109 columnsx
340 lines=
37.060 cells
One-off projectsvs.
generic solutions
150,000,000More than
time series
23.000+data sets
822 years1279 - 2100
data publishing & insights
SELF-SERVICE
OUR REQUIREMENTS
OUR STACK
Postgres
Python
Django
HTML5 / Javascript
???Visualization
Web (client)
Web (server)
Server + Connectors
Database
OUR STACK
Postgres
Python
Django
HTML5 / Javascript
???Visualization
Web (client)
Web (server)
Server + Connectors
Database
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTFull control of look, feel and UI
REQUIREMENTBrowser compatibility
REQUIREMENTiOS
REQUIREMENTVector based
REQUIREMENTServer-side rendering
REQUIREMENTS
Server-side rendering
Full control of look, feel and UIBrowser compatibilityiOSVector based
?
PROTOVIS
PROTOVIS
Server-side rendering
Full control of look, feel and UIBrowser compatibilityiOSVector based
PROTOVISServer-side rendering
PROTOVISServer-side rendering
PROTOVIS
Server-side rendering
Full control of look, feel and UIBrowser compatibilityiOSVector based
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
?
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
IE9 IE <9
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
IE9 IE <9
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
IE9 IE <9
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
Protovis SVG
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
Protovis SVG
VML
Shim
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVISBrowser compatibility
PROTOVIS
Server-side rendering
Full control of look, feel and UIBrowser compatibilityiOSVector based
PROTOVIS
D3
Supercool presentation: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/#0
PROTOVIS vs D3
TOOL for the TASK
TOPICS‣Why visualize data? ...and what we do
‣Our requirements
‣Our approach
F I N D A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA
Twitter: @datamarket · Facebook: DataMarket · E-mail: [email protected]
Hjalmar Gislason, founder & CEO
