Boston Data Visualization presents: It's time for us all to meet up! We've been on quite the hiatus, but I am thrilled to kick things back into gear with an incredible talk. Big thanks to the MIT Media Lab for hosting us!
Abstract:
Visualizing MBTA Data is an interactive report of the performance and behavior of Boston's subway system that we launched in June. This talk will outline how we combined traditional and modern visualization techniques to create this application. We'll cover the design process, lessons learned from collecting and processing train data, how we built and scaled a large D3.js based project with a responsive UI, and techniques for exploratory visualizations. We’ll also touch on what’s happened with the project since the launch including the release of the website source code and feedback we’ve received from the MBTA and other groups.
Author Bios:
Mike Barry is a software engineer at Twitter who focuses on backend services and data analysis, Brian Card is a software engineer at ViaSat who focuses on UI design and network management. Both Mike and Brian have an active interest in data visualization and analysis. This project was expanded from a graduate course on data visualization from WPI where Mike and Brian are part time students.
This meetup is kindly sponsored by Bocoup, where we're working to move data visualization forward on the open web. There will be some food and beverages.
August 14, 2014
Wonderful talk by well-qualified dataviz experts on how they created an exceptional view of the MBTA system.
August 14, 2014
I'm working on an app and I would like to acquire lessons learned and listen to his experiences
August 13, 2014
This sounds awesome but I'm out of town. Any chance it's going to be recorded?
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Thanks everyone who made it last night! It was great to meet and talk to everyone, I hope you found the talk interesting. Feel free to reach out to Mike or myself if you have any questions or comments. The handouts for the talk are also available online here:
http://mbtaviz.github.io/medialab-handout.pdf
Thanks again!