Presentación de Sergio Álvarez Leiva en la mesa redonda "Visualización de Datos. ¿la próxima frontera?", celebrada el 20 de enero de 2014 en la Universidad Europea de Madrid.

1. La proxima frontera es el viernes
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2. Vision
Democratisation of the use of
data is a game changer.

3. More analytical society
The model of someone decides
and the others follow is broken.

4. ?
Is data the new Photography?
From stories to facts

5. OldWeather
Recreating the weather of 100 years
ago with the power of the people.

6. OldWeather
900.000 logbooks pages
Handwritten. From different captains.
In a non standardised way.

8. OldWeather
80 years
2 minutes per page, ten times needed.
8 hours per day. No holidays.

9. OldWeather
Generate value
And if you are the one that have done more
pages, you became the captain of the boat.

10. Hello,
!
Doing log entries is really addiction, as I’m sure
some of you have found. I sit down when I have
a spare moment with the intention of doing just
few entries, then it’s just some more, just one
more. You get the picture. This is thrilling work
for following the ship and crew.
!
All best,
Don.

11. — My Great-Great Grandfather is Alexander J
McGee, the skipper aboard the J.C.P at the time
of its sinking. Did you ever find out where it
went down?
!
— J.C.P. drifter, lost March 22, 1918, British Isles.

12. PlanetHunters
Discovering planets that NASA
would have missed.

13. PlanetHunters
A bet
Humans are better than
computers recognising patterns

14. PlanetHunters
Analyzing the
luminosity of the stars
When something gets between the telescope
and the star, generates a small eclipse

15. PlanetHunters
Visualization makes
the task easier
Users try to find small dips on the graphs

17. PlanetHunters
We’ve found 2 planets
So, it’s confirmed. Humans are better
than computers recognising patterns.
They just need data visualization.

18. Global Forest Watch
Detecting deforestation when we
still can do something to stop it.

19. Global Forest Watch
Finding changes over time
We analyze changes on the values of
each pixel over time (each 15 days)
to detect deforestation alerts.

20. Global Forest Watch
Watching deforestation
By visualizing that data anybody can
see the areas where deforestation is
happening and understand why.

38. !
Empowering people
So we can take better decissions

39. !
Data is not a force unto itself
Data does not create value by itself. The value
has to be created by the society.

40. !
Data is not perfect
Datasets are generated, selected, analysed
and corrected for particular purposes.

41. !
Data does not speak for itself
Data requires further research and analysis in
order to make sense of it.

42. !
Data is not power
Power happens when you are able to do things.
Data empower people to take better decisions.

43. !
People is not yet ready for data
Data can be an immensely powerful asset, if
used in the right way.

44. !
We don’t want data
to be the new oil
We better react quickly and
democratize the use of it.

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47. Thank you
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