Visualize your ideas using Rasem

A major part of a researchers' work is to write papers and articles that describe their work and make posters and presentations to better communicate their ideas. We all believe that "A picture is worth a thousand words" and we are always looking for better ways to visualize our ideas. In this blog article, I present Rasem, a library that I built as I started my PhD and used it in many of my papers and presentation to build nice visualizations like the ones shown below.

Around the world in one hour! (revisit)

In this blog post, we revisit an earlier blog post about extracting data from OpenStreetMap Planet.osm file. We still use the same extraction script in Pigeon but we make it modular and easier to reuse. We make use of the macro definitions in Pig to extract common code into a separate file. In the following part, we first describe the OSMX.pig file which contains the reusable macros. After that, we describe how to use it in your own Pig script.

HadoopViz: Extensible Visualization of Big Spatial Data

With huge sizes of spatial data, a common functionality that users are looking for is to visualize this data to see how it looks like. This gives users the power of quickly exploring new datasets with huge sizes. For example, the video below summarizes 1 trillion points that represent the temperature of every 1 km2 on the earth surface on every day from 2009 to 2014 (total of six years).