Filtergraph: A fast, flexible and sharable service for visualization in big data science (Data Visualization Summit Boston 2013)

A fast, flexible and sharable service for visualization in big data science

Dan BurgerWeb Application DeveloperVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA

Twitter: @danburgerdan.burger@vanderbilt.edu

my.vanderbilt.edu/keltsouth, web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/tess-nasa-award.html

KELT

TESS

Transiting ExoplanetSurvey Satellite

Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope

• Large amounts of data– Tens of columns–Millions of rows

• Need for exploratory data analysis– Bad data, missing data, categories,

biases, relationships, patterns

http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/

Five years ofearthquake

data

filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/earthquakes

Admin interface

Title and description

Filters

Graphcontrol

Save and share

Interactive plot

Click and drag to zoom in

Click to get more information

Spin around

filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/tess

New Message

To: My colleagues

Check out this data file!I hope this goes through...

Large file (73 MB)

New Message

To: My colleagues

http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/myfile

It was so easy!

No plugins or software needed!

http://slowpokes.vanderbilt.edu/visualization.html

Embed portals on your site

gnuplot

and more...web2py.com, numpy.org, gnuplot.info, graphicsmagic.org

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Old-Fat-Stars-Flicker-220565641.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130821132348.htm

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/blog/2013/08/27/star-gravity-discovery-at-vandy-boosts-search-for-distant-planets-like-earth/

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/stars-twinkling-light-can-reveal-strength-gravitational-pull-6C10972389

Thanks to:

Keivan StassunRob Siverd

Joshua PepperRachel-Chloe Gibbs

Nathan MeyerManodeep SinhaMartin PaegertNathan De LeePhillip Cargile

Alyce Dobyns-LaddVanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics

NASA ADAP grant

Images on slide 4 from Hipparcos data:http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/hiptest

http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu

Dan BurgerTwitter: @danburger

dan.burger@vanderbilt.edu