Presentation at the BBC Academy conference - BBC Develop

1. Hacking public-facing
visualizations at Twitter
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte / @philogb

2. https://interactive.twitter.com/

3. thejit.org PhiloGL

4. The Geography of Tweets
!

5. The Geography of Tweets
by @miguelrios

6. The Geography of Tweets
by @miguelrios

7. The Topography of Tweets

8. • Novel Visualization
• Data Processing
• Rendering
!

9. Visualization Techniques

10. Typhoon
Haiyan

11. Charles Joseph Minard - (1781-1870)

12. Emigration

13. Coal Exports

14. Data-ink ratio
“Above all else show the data

15. MINGLE
Multilevel Agglomerative Edge Bundling - Gansner, E.R. ; Yifan Hu ; North, S. ; Scheidegger, C.

16. Visual Display

17. Visual Display

18. Visual Display
http://github.com/philogb/mingle

19. Data Processing Techniques

20. NFL Fans

21. by @kristw

25. Pixel Color maps to Hash
rgb(20, 50, 55)
“20,50,55”: {
“COUNTY”: /*name*/
“STATE”: /*name*/
“POPULATION”: 30
}
We keep an image file and a meta data file

26. Graphics Techniques

27. BRANDS

28. Day / Night

29. Fold / Unfold

30. Blending
render tweets render globe
blend
+ post-process

31. Halos

32. Halos

33. Halos
Tissot indicatrix

34. Halos

35. Halos

36. Tweet Impressions

37. WebGL Insights
http://webglinsights.blogspot.com/
!
!

38. Platform
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Global / Real-Time / Conversational

39. @philogb
https://interactive.twitter.com/