sveinn · April 24, 2014 19:43
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 Keynote
 Mike Bostock
 Author of D3.js / http://d3js.org/
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 Philosphy and Practice of design:
 Philosophy:
 "One commonality between writing and coding is that everything you do is in a nightmarish state of total failure until the moment it is not"

 Design principles are not sufficient to produce a good design.

 One has to explore as many possibilities as possible that aren't going to work in order to find the things that do work.
 In computer science creative problems can be reduced to logical problems. That's hard to do with design.

 "The best designer isn't sure if his design is good"
 Dieter Rams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams)
 10 Commandments of Design (https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design)

 Good design is as little design as possible.
 Search as a metaphor for a design process - one can either work harder or smarter.

 Practice:
 Try to get fresh eyes frequently, invite criticism. (Visual history of commits.)
 Have a prototype who's only purpose is to validate a hypothesis. 
 Transition to refining from exploring when deadline nears.
 Beginning exploration is all over the place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing).
 Delete code as you go, be ruthless. 
 Make your process reusable (extract libraries).
 Try bad ideas deliberately. (don't get stuck at a local maximum).
 Don't be afraid to fail. 

 Tools:
 Uses Node.js and js for everything + d3.js.

 ====================================
 Mapping Billions of Dots
 Eric Fisher
 ------------------------------------
 https://github.com/ericfischer/datamaps
 https://github.com/mapbox/tm2

 NextBus - bus tracker data
 MIT - Taxi Picking up Passenger location data
 OpenStreetMap - Volunteer GPS, Street Addresses
 Flickr - Photo Location Data
 Twitter - Geeotagged Tweets

 The business of finding patterns - a little bit about a lot.
 Human scale 50ft/px - with of a street/building.
 Calibrate brightness to population density - 16 people/px. Uses x**2 instead of x when zooming because too dark. Stanford uses x**3. Keeps rural areas visible.

 Tile Mill 2 for vector tiles.
 A lot of failure to produce success. 



 ====================================
 Using D3 with Backbone, Angular and Ember
 Sam Selikoff
 ====================================
 Coding For The News
 Kennedy Elliot, Washington Post
 ====================================
 Visualizing Science: Developing Information Graphics for Scientific American Magazine
 Jen Christiansen
 ====================================
 Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment
 Arvind Satayanarayan
 ====================================
 Agile Data Mining and Visualization
 Tom De Smedt & Frederik De Bleser
 ====================================
 The Design of Nothing: Null, Zero, Blank
 Andy Kirk
 ====================================
 Understanding Machine Learning with D3:
 Visualization for Models and Algorithms
 David Mimno
 ====================================
	Keynote
	Mike Bostock
	Author of D3.js / http://d3js.org/
	------------------------------------
	Philosphy and Practice of design:
	Philosophy:
	"One commonality between writing and coding is that everything you do is in a nightmarish state of total failure until the moment it is not"

	Design principles are not sufficient to produce a good design.

	One has to explore as many possibilities as possible that aren't going to work in order to find the things that do work.
	In computer science creative problems can be reduced to logical problems. That's hard to do with design.

	"The best designer isn't sure if his design is good"
	Dieter Rams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams)
	10 Commandments of Design (https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design)

	Good design is as little design as possible.
	Search as a metaphor for a design process - one can either work harder or smarter.

	Practice:
	Try to get fresh eyes frequently, invite criticism. (Visual history of commits.)
	Have a prototype who's only purpose is to validate a hypothesis.
	Transition to refining from exploring when deadline nears.
	Beginning exploration is all over the place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing).
	Delete code as you go, be ruthless.
	Make your process reusable (extract libraries).
	Try bad ideas deliberately. (don't get stuck at a local maximum).
	Don't be afraid to fail.

	Tools:
	Uses Node.js and js for everything + d3.js.

	====================================
	Mapping Billions of Dots
	Eric Fisher
	------------------------------------
	https://github.com/ericfischer/datamaps
	https://github.com/mapbox/tm2

	NextBus - bus tracker data
	MIT - Taxi Picking up Passenger location data
	OpenStreetMap - Volunteer GPS, Street Addresses
	Flickr - Photo Location Data
	Twitter - Geeotagged Tweets

	The business of finding patterns - a little bit about a lot.
	Human scale 50ft/px - with of a street/building.
	Calibrate brightness to population density - 16 people/px. Uses x2 instead of x when zooming because too dark. Stanford uses x3. Keeps rural areas visible.

	Tile Mill 2 for vector tiles.
	A lot of failure to produce success.



	====================================
	Using D3 with Backbone, Angular and Ember
	Sam Selikoff
	====================================
	Coding For The News
	Kennedy Elliot, Washington Post
	====================================
	Visualizing Science: Developing Information Graphics for Scientific American Magazine
	Jen Christiansen
	====================================
	Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment
	Arvind Satayanarayan
	====================================
	Agile Data Mining and Visualization
	Tom De Smedt & Frederik De Bleser
	====================================
	The Design of Nothing: Null, Zero, Blank
	Andy Kirk
	====================================
	Understanding Machine Learning with D3:
	Visualization for Models and Algorithms
	David Mimno
	====================================