New Data Visualization Projects fromMicrosoft Research

Lee Dirks | Director—Portfolio Strategy Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research

• Expand the state of the art in each of the areas in which we do research

• Rapidly transfer innovative technologies into Microsoft products

• Ensure that Microsoft products have a future

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• Division within Microsoft Research focused on partnerships between academia, industry and government to advance computer science, education, and research in fields that rely heavily upon advanced computing

• Supporting groundbreaking research to help advance human potential and the wellbeing of our planet

• Developing advanced technologies and services to support every stage of the research process

• Microsoft Research Connections is committed to interoperability and to providing open access, open tools, and open technology

http://research.microsoft.com/collaboration/

Microsoft Research Connections

Work with the worldwide

academic research community to

speed research, improve

education, and foster innovation.

Advance the State of the

Art

Accelerate Discovery and Exploration

Inspire Researchers &

Scientists

Engagement and Collaboration Focus

Core ComputerScience

Natural UserInterface

Earth,Energy &

Environment

Health &Wellbeing

Education & Scholarly

Communication

Research Accelerators

http://research.microsoft.com/accelerators

Research Manageme

nt

Publishing

Scientific Computing

Learning and Exploration

Data-Intensive Research

Data

Acquisition & modelling

Collaboration and

visualisation

Analysis & data mining

Dissemination & sharing

Archiving and

preserving

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Launched February 2008

Earth Mode allows users to view a 3D model of the Earth, with a default data set with near global coverage and resolution down to sub-meter in high-population centers. Unlike most Earth viewers, WorldWide Telescope supports many different map projections including Mercator, Equirectangular and TOAST. There are also map layers for seasonal, night, streets, hybrid and science oriented MODIS imagery. The new layer manger can be used to add data visualization on the Earth or other planets.

http://www.layerscape.org/

demo

http://www.layerscape.org/

What you need to remember…• Layerscape is a website for publishing, sharing/finding and

visualizing geo-specific data• Built on top of Worldwide Telescope (WWT) as the

visualization engine [Windows rich client]• It is a free service—hosted on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering• Not just flat maps

– Powerful, interactive “experience engine”– Easy to build tours – Developing communities around data

big history with big data

http://www.chronozoomproject.org/

demo

What you need to remember about ChronoZoomhttp://www.chronozoomproject.org/

• “Zoomable” interface that allows users to navigate quickly through multiple rich media sources, sifting though astounding amounts of embedded data in a variety of different formats – Mash-up of video (YouTube, Vimeo); PDF; scanned documents; photos; maps; charts/figures;

live documents, etc.– Coming soon – an open authoring platform

• Limited, trusted partners now• Opening up to curated sets in V1.0• Broad public access in ~1 year

• Facilitates learning across traditional silos– Simultaneous learning, across time, across geographies, and spanning domains– Opportunity to glean new insights – In the near future, more powerful tools for permitting comparative research

• Enhances discovery: make bookmarks, build tours, powerful search– Upload your content into private Chronozoom spaces – for individuals, domains, families,

organization, etc. • A free web service (all HTML5), as well as an open source project managed through

the Outercurve Foundation at http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ResearchAccelerators/ChronoZoom

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Thank you!

Lee DirksDirector, Portfolio Strategy

Microsoft Research | Connections

ldirks@microsoft.com or scholar@microsoft.comURL – http://www.microsoft.com/scholarlycomm/Facebook: Scholarly Communication at Microsoft

@ldirks