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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
[email protected]
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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