Sensor and Log Data

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Sensor and Log Data

• Tamara Munzner
• University of British Columbia
• Computer Science Dept, 2366 Main Mall
• Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
• tmm_at_cs.ubc.ca

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Sensor and Log Data

• Sensors
• gathering data about physical world
• widespread, increasing deployment
• Logging
• storing data about computers/network
• Some private, some public
• (categorized in draft report as public)
• Connection to NVAC apps

Tamara Munzner, UBC
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Sensors

• Many spatial scales
• galactic astronomical
• planetary satellite/environmental (report)
• georeferenced
• regional traffic, cell phone location tracking
• georeferenced
• personal heart rate, blood sugar

Tamara Munzner, UBC
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Logged Data

• Report financial domain
• transactions
• billing data
• historical/current stock market data
• Other possibilities
• web traffic logs, phone call logs
• computer performance
• database / data mining vis

Tamara Munzner, UBC
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Vis for the Public

• yesterday Mom and Pop audience
• report much-maligned Google for vis
• allow Mom and Pop to visually explore all
  publicly available datasets
• unlock nontext, nonmedia information
• like Google unlocked text, images, etc
• catapulted IR from niche to mainstream
• exploration/browsing vs. search

Tamara Munzner, UBC
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Vis for the Public

• other Mom and Pop applications?
• browse/organize media collections
• photos, music, videos, ...
• self-created or bought/shared/copied
• personal medical data
• maps / localized information
• AR/ubicomp tie-in

Tamara Munzner, UBC