Data Vis LA Meetup #2
Jan 28, 2014 - Cornerstone Santa Monica
Introduction
John Snow's Cholera Map - Small Data!
Charles Minard's Napoleonic Retreat in the War of 1812 (Flow Map)
Aaron Koblin's Flight Paths
To boundless data from outer space - Planet Finder (Carto DB)
Personal Work
Oahu Traffic Incidents (Carto DB)
Bike Backbone Network
Santa Monica - Cyclist Crashes (2006-2011)
Santa Monica/Venice - Focus on Main St
Static Infographics
Personal Activity Flow Map
Visual Intensity: Black Swam vs. 500 Days
Automobile-related expenses
Interactive Projects
Sintel deconstruction (Animated Short)
Lyric Sentiment Analysis
Hue occurence within each shot (That Thing You Do)
Data Sources
Control Panel LA (Socrata)
Open Data Initiatives in various cities
Data Scraping
Live Shows - Original (SceneStar LA)
Live Shows - Scraped Data API
Los Angeles Live Show Venues (Carto DB)
Tools
Google Charts
Aviation Manufacturer Incidents
MIT Place Pulse (jQuery Sparklines)
Sunburst/Exploded Donut chart (D3)
Fun with Chrome Dev Console
Rolling Stones Tours (Carto DB API)
Looking for the $.ajax call in the JS include
Find the Original SELECT query
Then do a SELECT * query to show entire dataset
Resources
UCLA Data Viz class links