Data Transfer
Data Cleaning
Analytics
Analytics and other tasks sometimes get done by same software as data visualization
Everything done via code
Data Visualization
Analytics
Data Visualization
Data Transfer
Separate GUIs
code library
Tasks done by separate software & code
Data Transer
Data Cleaning
Analytics
Data Visualization
R inside GUI for these
GUI used for these
Single Software
GUI used for these
Data Cleaning
Excel
Code
Industry
Specific
Desktop
GUIs
mainframe
pre-installed application on personal computer
Business Intelligence, expensive applications, if not excel
some data-viz specific code libraries but not pure JS, start of web-based
pure JavaScript libraries, web default
Many of the data visualizations that load today in <1 second today would take 10s of seconds to download (and then additional time for your browser to display) years ago
(you can use this calculator to figure out how long your data visualizations would take to download in the past)
Nielsen's "Law" of Bandwidth
Edholm's "Law" of Bandwidth
both of these use top-of-the-line speeds at the time and show more or less the same thing
The last D3.js visualiation I made : 2 minutes in 1998, 5 seconds in 2003, <1 seconds in 2005
Browser ability is an influence on web-based data visualization tools
2000s
2000s
1. Everyone from 1996
2. A lot of people know a bit for work, often within another piece of software.
3. A bunch of students who were taught in a college class but aren't C.S. students.
4. code bootcamp students
5. Internet taught
These groups are growing fast!
Stack Overflow 2016 Developer Survey found =
1. People with C.S. degrees
2. Hackers
3. People making things in their garages
More people are doing more advanced data visualization, because more people know how to code
majority don't have a traditional C.S. degree
that are changing data visualization tools we use?
2016
Excel
Code
Industry Specific Desktop GUIs
Salesforce
Tableau
D3.js
chart.js
Venga
QlikView
Domo
cloud-based
platforms as a service
oil and gas data & analysis as online service
Spotfire
hundreds of BI options
bokeh
templates & add-ons purchased piecmeal
Altair
Microsoft BI
A MORE CROWDED LANDSCAPE WITH MORE HYBRIDS
FASTER TO BUILD THINGS & MORE WAYS TO VISUALIZE DATA
Speed of new things and diversity of things goes way up. Both open-source and $ license-based
Tableau
Petrel
D3.js
Spotfire
Tableau
Spotfire
D3.js
Ruths.ai template
that are changing data visualization tools we use?
General Software Trends
trend to create on pixel instead of line basis
IT Architecture is changing
more data and increasingly complex data require different tools
data interpretations increasingly need to be shared & not only presented
Internet is faster & cloud is normalized
more competition more open-source, & prices are coming down
Infrastructure
New Tools
& New features
People
more people know how to code
new features might generate better understanding, faster understanding, or more people to be exposed to the information
more real-time / mobile expectations
Data
Task
data visualization being applied in new ways