Video: Designing for Big Data, by Jeffrey Veen

Video: Designing for Big Data

This is a 20-minute talk I gave at the Web2.0 Expo in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. In it, I describe two trends: how we're shifting as a culture from consumers to participants, and how technology has enabled massive amounts of data to be recorded, stored, and analyzed. Putting those things together has resulted in some fascinating innovations that echo data visualization work that's been happening for centuries.

I've given this talk a few times now, but this particular delivery really went well. Only having 20 minutes forced me to really stay focus, and the large audience was very engaged. I'll be giving an extended version of this talk in June at the UX London conference, with a deeper look at how we integrated design and research while I was at Google.

This entry was written by Jeffrey Veen and posted 21 April 2009 at 8:46 AM. It was filed under Web Design.

Comments

1. On 21 April 2009 at 11:36 AM Gabriel McGovern wrote:

Great presentation as always!

2. On 21 April 2009 at 12:14 PM Wilbur & Arlys Veen wrote:

Wow! It was just like being there..and you were great!
I even understood part of it! Mom and dad

3. On 21 April 2009 at 12:38 PM sam wrote:

fantastic presentation, jeffrey. where might one find that google data viz tool that you use to illustrate the botswana aids epidemic? (@16:50)

4. On 21 April 2009 at 1:57 PM Veen wrote:

Could you see me stop and blank out on the name of the Google visualization? I couldn't believe it, considering how much time I spent with those folks. Guess that's what the stage does to you some times.

You can find everything here:

http://graphs.gapminder.org/world

5. On 21 April 2009 at 3:08 PM Brendan Gramer wrote:

I tried to twitter you.

Do you have a captions/subtitles or a text transcript for Deaf and Hard of Hearing viewers? I am very interested in this, but need the c/s or transcript.

Thanks!
BG

6. On 22 April 2009 at 1:44 PM sam wrote:

ha! i couldn't tell until you mentioned it. cheers.

7. On 23 April 2009 at 8:47 AM Raymond Selda wrote:

Great presentation! I'm just amazed at the people who make this kind of data visualization work. Thank you.

8. On 23 April 2009 at 12:33 PM gmonk wrote:

very very interesting talk, jeff...always interesting, funny, and informative.

9. On 29 April 2009 at 6:16 PM veen wrote:

Brendon, sorry for the delay. Here's a transcript of the talk:

http://csixty4.com/archives/1543