Civic Data: Moving it Through Time & Space

Data on the Move

Chris Whong Urbanist, Mapmaker, & Data Junkie Data Innovation Day January 23rd, 2013

A bit about me… Data Solutions Architect Socrata, Inc. Democratizing Public Data Urban Planner

Coder

OPEN

CIVIC

My Favorit e Data GEOSPATIAL

GIS: A Gateway Drug

ArcScene Polygon Extrusion + ACS Data + Custom Camera Tour

Enter Processing!

• Open Source • Great for Beginners • Lots of Examples

• Same language as Arduino! • Vibrant Community

With the right libraries, IT DOES MAPS!

Processing + Twitter Data

Processing + Bikeshare Data

Processing + Transit Data

Animated Maps on the Web

D3.js + Leaflet.js + Cloudmade

http://chriswhong.com/projects/phillybiketheft

http://chriswhong.com/projects/nycbudget

http://chriswhong.com/projects/nycopendata

http://hdr.undp.org/countries

Tech Chops

Design Eye

DataViz ! Vision & StoryTelling

Thanks! @chris_whong https://github.com/chriswhong http://chriswhong.com

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