Evolution of Olympic Data Viz
Who am I?
Makoto Inoue (@makoto_inoue)
Londinium MMXII Hackathon
Topics
- MMVIII(2008)
- MMXII(2012)
- MMXVI(2016)
MMVIII
(August 8 - 24)
Technology
iPhone (2007 June)
Technology
- Facebook Platform (2007 May)
- BBC iPlayer (2007 December)
- The AppStore (2008 July)
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670386/infographic-whats-different-about-the-2012-olympics-social-media-basically
YouTube
Facebook
- Java Applet (Many Eyes)
- Flash
- Processing.js (2008 May)
- Raphael.js (2008 Sep)
- Protoviz (2009 April)
MMVIII was ...
- Medal Counts, medal counts, medal counts
- By the Pros
- Flash or Java
MMXII
(July 29 - Aug 12)
Technology
- Mobile (iPhone, Android, iPad)
- Social (Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare)
- Video (Youtube, BBC iPlayer)
- Big Data
“At the end of July, as the Games got underway, developers took part in the first Olympic hackday”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/03/london-2012-olympics-open-data
The Londinium MMXII Hackathon
Real Time
- Capturing the right moment is important
d3.js(Data Driven Document)
- Manipulating documents(HTML, CSS, SVG) based on data
Hackathon winning formula
London 2012: is this the first open data Olympics?
“As for live results, it may be broadcast in front of your eyes but reusing and reproducing it is a no-go, largely because it still costs money to get the data in the first place.”
London 2012: is this the first open data Olympics?
“So, is it the first Open data Olympics? Not this time. But it is the first data Olympics.”
MMXII is ...
- Medal Counts + Social Media + Geo
- Not just by the Pros
- JavaScript FTW
- Visualisation is constrained by available data
MMXVI
(Aug 5 - 21)
MMXVI will be ...
- Brazil football team to win gold
- IE7,8,9,10,11 (= SVG & d3.js FTW)
- Closed => Open
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
By Alan Kay
What if ?
Detailed result of sports event data is available?
Data Driven Video ™
- Event has different data
- Data can be filtered and grouped in many ways
- Data drives you to interesting moment
BBC (Data Driven) iPlayer
Thanks & References
@makoto_inoue
http://makoto.github/olympic_data_viz
