A presentation by DataMarket's founder and CEO, Hjalmar Gislason at a Boston Data Visualization Meetup on April 5, 2012

1. F I N D A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA
Data Visualization
- where (normal) people fall in love with data
Boston Data Visualization Meetup April 5, 2012

2. Hjalmar
Gislason
Founder and CEO
Twitter: @datamarket
Slides: http://blog.datamarket.com/

3. TOPICS
‣Why visualize data?
...and what we do
‣Our requirements
‣Our approach

4. NUMBERS
drive our world

5. Finding and publishing
numerical data is
HARD

6. GOOGLE
for numbers

7. “APP STORE”
for numbers

8. Wasn’t this supposed to be about
VISUALIZATION?

11. 109 columns
x
340 lines
=
37.060 cells

15. One-off projects
vs.
generic solutions

20. More than
150,000,000
time series

21. 23.000+
data sets

22. 822 years
1279 - 2100

23. SELF-
SERVICE
data publishing & insights

25. OUR
REQUIREMENTS

26. OUR STACK
Visualization ???
Web (client) HTML5 / Javascript
Web (server) Django
Server + Connectors Python
Database Postgres

27. OUR STACK
Visualization ???
Web (client) HTML5 / Javascript
Web (server) Django
Server + Connectors Python
Database Postgres

28. REQUIREMENTS

29. REQUIREMENT
Full control of look, feel and UI

30. REQUIREMENT
Browser compatibility

31. REQUIREMENT
iOS

32. REQUIREMENT
Vector based

33. REQUIREMENT
Server-side rendering

34. REQUIREMENTS
Full control of look, feel and UI
Browser compatibility
? iOS
Vector based
Server-side rendering

36. PROTOVIS

37. PROTOVIS
Full control of look, feel and UI
Browser compatibility
iOS
Vector based
Server-side rendering

38. PROTOVIS
Server-side rendering

39. PROTOVIS
Server-side rendering

40. PROTOVIS
Full control of look, feel and UI
Browser compatibility
iOS
Vector based
Server-side rendering

41. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

42. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

43. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility
?

44. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

45. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

46. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility
IE9 IE <9

47. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility
IE9 IE <9

48. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility
IE9 IE <9

49. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

50. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility
Protovis SVG

51. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility
Protovis Shim SVG
VML

52. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

53. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

54. PROTOVIS
Browser compatibility

55. PROTOVIS
Full control of look, feel and UI
Browser compatibility
iOS
Vector based
Server-side rendering

56. PROTOVIS

57. D3
Supercool presentation: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/#0

58. PROTOVIS vs D3

59. TOOL for the TASK

60. TOPICS
‣Why visualize data?
...and what we do
‣Our requirements
‣Our approach

61. F I N D A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA
Hjalmar Gislason, founder & CEO
Twitter: @datamarket · Facebook: DataMarket · E-mail: hg@datamarket.com