105 | Data Visualization at Twitter with Krist Wongsuphasawat

Data Stories

[Help us run the show by supporting us on Patreon!]

This week we have Krist Wongsuphasawat on Data Stories to talk about visualization projects at Twitter. Krist has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, where he worked with Ben Shneiderman. Most recently, he has been a Data Visualization Scientist at Twitter since 2012.

On the show, Krist describes the kinds of projects that the visualization team at Twitter develops. He also walks us through a few of the most popular of these projects, including their famous visualization of Game of Thrones.

Also, don’t miss Krist’s masterpiece post “How I carefully crafted a truly terrible data visualization”

Enjoy the show!

---

Data Stories is brought to you by Qlik. Are you missing out on meaningful relationships hidden in your data? Unlock the whole story with Qlik Sense through personalized visualizations and dynamic dashboards which you can download for free at qlik.de/datastories.

---

Links

• Wahl 2Q17
• Enrico’s website
• Krist’s website
• The Twitter interactive page
• “How every #GameOfThrones episode has been discussed on Twitter”
• Twitter platform for developers
• Labella.js
• Twitter D3Kit
• Krist’s post: “How I carefully crafted a truly terrible data visualization”

Related Episodes

• Data Stories 11: emoto with Stephan Thiel from Studio NAND
• Data Stories 54: Designing Exploratory Data Visualization Tools with Miriah Meyer
• Data Stories 62: Text Visualization: Past, Present and Future with Chris Collins
• Data Stories 95: Challenges of Being a Vis Professional in Industry with Elijah Meeks

---

http://datastori.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/krist-promo.m4v

Chapters

1. Our sponsor: Qlik (00:00:10)

http://www.qlik.de/datastories

2. An introduction to Data Stories for new listeners (00:00:48)

http://datastori.es

3. Support us on Patreon, please! (00:01:15)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories

4. Moritz's new project on the German elections: http://2q17.de/ (00:01:53)

https://2q17.de

5. Enrico's new research on tag clouds: enrico.bertini.io (00:03:23)

http://enrico.bertini.io

6. Introducing Krist Wongsuphasawat from Twitter (00:05:34)

http://kristw.yellowpigz.com

7. Data viz at Twitter (00:08:15)

https://interactive.twitter.com/

8. How the Twitter team works with sample data (00:14:04)

9. Krist's thoughts on customization when developing new tools (00:15:10)

10. The Twitter team's projects for the public, including data viz on Game of Thrones (00:18:47)

https://interactive.twitter.com/game-of-thrones/#?episode=66

11. Developing new libraries at Twitter: Labella.js and d3Kit (00:23:09)

12. Twitter itself as a data source (00:26:44)

http://analytics.twitter.com

13. Krist's recommendations for how listeners could visualize Twitter data (00:32:29)

http://dev.twitter.com

14. What is the value of data visualization for Twitter as a company? (00:35:52)

15. Suggestions for getting a job in data viz at a company like Twitter (00:39:27)

16. Krist's extra hobby: crafting the worst possible data visualizations (00:42:07)

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-carefully-crafted-a-terrible-visualization-2c8e06d50ebb?gi=8293a6b6808b

17. If you liked this episode, check out these episodes (00:44:51)

18. Our sponsor: Qlik (00:46:24)

http://www.qlik.de/datastories