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Prototyping apps
using real data

Matt Biddulph
@mattb | matt@hackdiary.com
no more
lorem ipsum
no more
chartjunk
prototypes are
boundary objects
LA attention heatmap
LA driving heatmap
Realistic cities


generating a dataset of people
moving around town
Realistic ranking


generating a dataset of places
ordered by importance
Successfully read 442,775 records from:
"s3://wikipedia-stats/features.txt"
Successfully read 975,017,055 records from:
"s3://wikipedia-stats/pagecounts-2012012*.gz"

in 4 hours, 19 minutes and 32 seconds
using 4 m1.small instances.
Hackney                                                               3428

              Camden                                                  2498

         Tower Hamlets                                              2378

              Newham                                  1850

               Enfield                               1830

              Croydon                                1796

              Islington                       1624

             Southwark                        1603

              Lambeth                  1354

            Greenwich                 1316

Hammersmith and Fulham               1268

              Haringey               1263
                                                                    London
               Harrow          1183                                 neighbourhoods
                 Brent        1140
                          0   1000                           2000            3000
Realistic social networks


generating a dataset of social
connections between people
Politicians




Royalty
Tennis


Politicians




Royalty
Tennis


               Politicians


Professional
 wrestling


               Royalty
Comicbook
characters                       Tennis


                   Politicians


    Professional
     wrestling


                   Royalty
Explore it yourself:
http://biddul.ph/wikipedia-graph

Code it yourself:
http://biddul.ph/where-workshop-code
Thanks!


Matt Biddulph
@mattb | matt@hackdiary.com

EAN’s World of Data: Prototyping apps using real data