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Background
B.S., Applied Physics, Condensed Matter
San Diego State University Advanced Physical Measurement 357
“Advanced Physical Pain” Good at triple integrals of magnetic fields
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VR in the Clinic, the ICU, and the Home
The VPL Research ‘Data Glove’
Parkinson’s tremor, Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), Huntington’s Disease
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Visualization Compressed Dimensional Arrays EEG, ECG Spatiotemporal Isosurfaces
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Models and Simulations
Actin-myosin Cardiac Simulator
Avian Respiratory Dynamics
Cardiac Ischemia Seismic DynamicsCell Mitosis
Volcanic Eruption Parkinson’s Disease Earthquake Activity
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Geo-Collaborations
Kris Stewart
Kathy Thorbjarnson
Serge Rey Regional Workbench Consortium
Pat Abbott
Vic Camp
Eric Frost
Christina Tague
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What is a Mashup? In technology, a mashup is a
web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; an example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data from Craigslist, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source.
Mashup originally referred to the practice in pop music (notably hip-hop) of producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces.
- Wikipedia
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What are Mashups Used For?
‘Programmable web’ lists 1,832 Mashups with 37% of them using mapping APIs, 9% photos, 8% news, 6% RSS and so on.
API scorecard indicates that Google Maps is used in 931, or nearly 50% of all Mashups!
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Examples
Social networking, Folksonomies, Tagging
Commercial, enterprise decision-making
News Traffic Crime Census Environment
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Social Explorer-U.S. Census Data
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Election Data - Perspctv
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San Diego Crime Statistics
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Principles of Graphical Excellence
Well-designed presentation of interesting data
A matter of substance, statistics, and design
Complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency
Gives the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space
Nearly always multivariate Requires telling the truth about the data
Edward Tufte, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”, 1983, Graphics Press
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Narratives in Space and Time
• Hannibal’s campaign in Spain, Gaul, and northern Italy
• Napoleon’s March on Moscow, 1812-13
Charles Joseph Minard, Tableaux Graphiques et Cartes Figuratives de M. Minard, 1845-69. Edward Tufte, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”,
1983, Graphics Press
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Map Mashups
First wave of web-based mashups were map-based with geo-referenced data Example: Google Map with GeoRSS Feed of
earthquake data from USGS:
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
• System of 27 NAVSTAR Satellites• 3D Trilateration• Determination of Latitude and Longitude• GPS Handhelds with Atomic Clock precision
Courtesey NASACourtesey Google
Courtesey Garmin
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Multivariate Visualization
French Global Wine Exports, Charles Joseph Minard, Bibliotheque d l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses, Paris, 1845-69
Edward Tufte, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”, 1983, Graphics Press
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Saving Lives
“Location of cholera deaths relative to community water pumps”, Dr. John Snow
E. W. Gilbert, “Pioneer Maps of Health and Disease in England”, Geographical Journal, 1958
Edward Tufte, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”, 1983, Graphics Press
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Mashup Editors
Microsoft Popfly http://www.popfly.com/Home.aspx
Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Google Mashup Editor http://code.google.com/gme/tour/tour1.html
IBM alphaWorks QEDWiki http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/qedwiki/
Open Mashups http://www.open-mashups.org/
Dapper http://www.dapper.net/
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Mashup Collections
Digg http://digg.com/
Open Mashups http://www.open-mashups.org/
Mashup Awards http://mashupawards.com/
WebMashups http://www.webmashup.com/
Programmable Web http://www.programmableweb.com/
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Mashup Developer Tools Google Developer Resources
http://code.google.com/ Yahoo Developer Network
http://developer.yahoo.com/ http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/dev/
Rhapsody Music http://webservices.rhapsody.com/
Flickr Photos http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
Digg http://apidoc.digg.com/Toolkits
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Mashup Data Resources GeoRSS Feeds
http://www.fmepedia.com/index.php/GeoRSS_Feeds
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/home
Yahoo Maps Traffic http://traffic.yahoo.com/traffic
Stock Market Online Data http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm
Census Data http://www.census.gov/
Crime Data http://www.apsu.edu/oconnort/data.htm
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Mashup References
Why Mashups? http://blog.sherifmansour.com/?p=187
Mashups (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28we
b_application_hybrid%29 The Mashup Revolution
http://nice97friends.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/the-mash-up-revolution/
Abject Learning http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archiv
es/040266.php Mashups, the new breed of Web app
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-mashups.html
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No Substitute Like Hands-On Demo of Microsoft Popfly Demo of YourGMap Demo of Google Mashups Editor Hands-on Create Your Own Map Mashup with
Earthquake data from the USGS RSS Feed
SDSC Educationhttp://education.sdsc.edu/
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