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Visualisation
20/06/2012
• Visualisation is an end product of a often complex processes
• Visualisation primarily exists to
• To understand and ultimately solve problems
• To educate and inform
• Many audiences
• Huge amounts of data
• The power of the “map”
• Visualisation is also vital in selecting and locating data
Geospatial visualisation
• £11 million DECC and DEFRA future climate predictions from the Met Office
• Over 4TB of data
• Billions of permutations of request
• 4 year development
• For the NE in 2050 – medium emissions
• 1.2 ~ 4 degree rise in summer mean temp (2.5)
• Complex data, many users, millions of end points
UK Climate Impact Programme
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Visualisation • Complex scientific data requires a range of
visualisation techniques
• Visualisation is as important for data access as it is for data output
• Users is a broad church
• Data visualisation and management is going to get tougher
• Sensor data streams • Complex interconnections of data
• Visualisation – and maps have high impacts with stakeholders and policy makers
• Visualisation as a service for users, developers is straightforward