Most people think of data visualizations as charts or graphs with perhaps some interactivity. Christopher Nguyen and Anh Trinh present a new approach that considers visualizations to be first-class objects that also act as data sources and sinks. This enables powerful collaboration where thousands of users can build on the work of one another by sharing these visualization objects. This talk was first presented at Strata + Hadoop World San Jose 2016. Watch the presentation: https://youtu.be/3_bTUsqtfHQ Star, Fork and Pull: https://github.com/ddf-project/vddf Sign up to get the vDDF plugin when it's ready: http://go.arimo.com/vddf About the speakers: Christopher Nguyen is CEO and cofounder of Arimo, the leader in enterprise big apps. Previously, he served as engineering director of Google Apps and cofounded two successful startups. As a professor, he cofounded the computer engineering program at HKUST. He has a BS from UC Berkeley, where he graduated summa cum laude, and a PhD from Stanford, where he created the first standard-encoding Vietnamese software suite, authored RFC 1456, and contributed to Unicode 1.1. He is also a cocreator of the open source Distributed DataFrame project. Anh Trinh is a software architect at Arimo, where he coauthored three patent-pending inventions: the Distributed Data Framework for Data Analytics, Collaboration using Shared Documents for Processing Distributed Data, and Multi-language Support for Interfacing with Distributed Data. He is also a coauthor of the Distributed DataFrame project. Previously, Anh built a recommendation system, a data mining system, and a real-time messaging platform for a location-based social network. He was also a contributor to Google Go programming language. Anh graduated summa cum laude from Macalaster College.