Getting Technical: How D3 Visualizations helped Scientists Explore Tree of Life

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A few years ago, at Boston's OpenVis Conference, I saw Kai Chang give a fantastic talk about visually exploring multidimensional data (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypc7Ul9LkxA), so I can't tell you how excited I am that he's agreed to come to Oklahoma City to tell the Data + Creativity group about his latest projects!

Kai, based out of San Francisco, is a design technologist at Stamen Design (http://stamen.com/) and co-organizer of the Bay Area D3.js User Group. In this tech talk he'll be sharing with us his tremendous experience leveraging the power of D3.js. D3 is a JavaScript library created by Mike Bostock for publishing interactive data visualizations on the web. In recent years, it has become increasingly used by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, data analytics companies, and even research universities.

In this talk, Kai will cover a brief history of D3, its community, and recent exploratory visualizations he's created using the library - including some exciting work to help scientists find a new branch on the tree of life (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/science/scientists-unveil-new-tree-of-life.html)!

If you're a technical developer, or a designer interested in data visualization, you're not going to want to miss this talk. As usual, we'll provide food (including vegetarian and gluten-free options), and make sure there is time after the talk for discussion and conversation.

If you'd like to check out some of Kai's work, he regularly publishes visualization experiments on his bl.ocks page here (http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic).

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