Data Visualization for Web Designers: You Already Know How to Do This

Today’s web developer is armed with a powerful suite of tools optimized for writing network-aware, data-driven, interactive graphical applications. Modern web browsers provide a powerful flexible programming language (Javascript), an expressive and elaborate styling system (CSS) and two robust, battle tested document models (HTML and SVG). In the rare cases these aren’t enough, new technologies like WebGL and Canvas can fill the gaps and old standbys like Flash haven’t gone anywhere. You know how to do this!

In this session we’ll:

• take a look at the best examples of interactive, web-based data visualization and talk about how they work and what they achieve (and where they fail)
• explore the tools, techniques and resources out there for today’s web developers and designers working with graphical presentations of data (e.g. Processing JS, Protovis, D3, Google Maps, etc.)
• look to the future of data visualization online and what features new technologies like WebGL will offer that we haven’t seen before