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Visualization Tools for Data Discovery
Lynn Langit, Lynn Langit Consulting
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Lynn Langit
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Former developer evangelist for Microsoft MSDN
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Community Awards
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SQL Server MVP
AWS Community Hero
Google Developer Expert (Cloud)
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Author, teacher, analyst
Co-founder of non-profit Teaching Kids
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Visualization Tools for Data Discovery
@Lynn Langit, Lynn Langit Consulting
Small BigData Pipeline
Document / Clean
Acquire / Discover
Process / Store
Query / Mine
Visualize
Discovering / Acquiring / Visualizing Data
Understanding
Public Data
All major cloud
providers host free
and premium data
Many repositories
include basic
visualization tools
Other sources –
governments,
universities, and
more
Start with “Open
Data”…
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Finding Public Data by example - AWS
• Free public data sets on AWS
• To use launch EC2 instance, add an AWS EBS instance or access
the data in AWS S3 via http request
• Catalog at - http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/
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Google – Public Data
• Wide Variety
• Includes links public repositories
• Includes many visualizers (maps, etc…)
• www.google.com/publicdata/directory
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Microsoft
• Azure Marketplace
• Free datasets
• Premium datasets
• datamarket.azure.com
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Finding Public Data by example - Quandl
• Curated
• Indexed
• Visualized / Integrated w/Excel
• Freemium model
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Looking at the data (Visualization)
Commercial
Open Source
• Excel Charts / Power View
• Tableau Public
• Wolfram Language
• Google Charts / Fusion Tables
• Open Heat Map
• Github > Data Visualization
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Let’s see the visualization tools…demo time
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Understanding possibilities via projects
• DataKind - #DataForGood
• Kaggle - contests
• Open Government
• Code for America
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