Saturday, February 20, 2016

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).