CartoDB and the New Spatial Technology ParadigmNew ways of exploring and explaining data

Francisco Dans@fdans

Rendering developerCartoDB

Connected Location Data Cloud Geo-AnalyticsVisual Data Discovery

Real-time data streams from enterprise data and external

sources.

Self-service geospatial algorithms to derive meaning

from geo.

Custom visualisations, reports and publishing tools to integrate

CartoDB anywhere.

Enabling people to tell stories..

global forest watch, http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

...and gather insights from their data

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING!

(without webgl)

cartodb.com/blog

Visualizing Escape

Scenarios

From the Washington Post

Map by siggyf

#sunrise map

See map here

See map hereMap by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Map by Lifewatch INBO

Bird Migration Mapping

Animated Web Maps are hard… traditional data downloads lead to big bottlenecks

What’s the minimal data dicing we can do?

Torque DataCube

slices of data on the client

flux capacitor for maps

tiling data, data3

THINGSx PLACES

y

TIME

z

slide by Aurelia Moser

floor(({column_conv} - {start})/{step})

(curr_time - min_time) / number_steps

aka

Torque Timing

TIME

z

slide by Aurelia Moser

delta encoding

Torque Encoding

gzip compression

binning by step

1.3M tweets

800K points

slide by Aurelia Moser, graphics Javi Santana

BROWSER

CartoDB.js Odyssey.js Torque.js

Leaflet/GMaps/OLayersEDITOR

Varnish Stuff

PostgreSQL

PostGIS

Maps API SQL API

Mapnik Torque RedisCartoDB Server API

AWS

Elas

tics

ImportsAPIRESTAPI

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

AWS

Elas

tics

See Torque’s render code

Experiments with Torque’s renderer

Torque with Labels

Map by Stuart Lynn

Torque with Vectors

Map by Stuart Lynn

Multivariate Torque

Map by Stuart Lynn

Isoline Tests

work by Francisco Dans

Isoline Tests

work by Francisco Dans

Isoband Tests

work by Francisco Dans

Torque with D3

work by Javi Santana

Fork Torque today and make a rendererhttps://github.com/CartoDB/torque

Thank you to Andy Eschbacher Javi Santana, Stuart Lynn, and Aurelia Moser for helping with materials for this talk.