Mike Bostock

Michael "Mike" Bostock is an American computer scientist and data-visualisation specialist. He is noted as one of the key developers of D3.js,[1] a JavaScript library used for producing dynamic, interactive, online data visualizations.[2] He was also involved in the preceding Protovis framework.

Bostock was a PhD student at Stanford University, advised by Jeffrey Heer.[3][4] Until 2015 he was working for the New York Times where he was leading complex data-visualisation projects.[5][6] Also for the New York Times he helped to create interactive articles.[7] He is also an adviser to data transformation platform provider Trifacta.

Bostock was interviewed in the Data Stories podcast and presented at Eyeo 2014. The Innovation Report of the New York Times called him a "digital superstar"[8] and Edward Tufte predicted that he will become one of the most important people for the future of data visualisation.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "mbostock/d3". GitHub. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  2. ↑ Bostock; Ogievetsky; Heer (October 2011). "D3: Data-Driven Documents". IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis) 17 (12): 2301–2309. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2011.185. PMID 22034350.
  3. ↑ "Mike Bostock". bost.ocks.org. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  4. ↑ "Stanford Visualization Group". vis.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  5. ↑ Bostock, Mike; Carter, Shan (November 2, 2012). "512 Paths to the White House". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  6. ↑ Cox, Amanda; Bostock, Mike; Watkins, Derek; Carter, Shan (November 6, 2014). "The Most Detailed Maps You’ll See From the Midterm Senate Elections". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  7. ↑ Himmelman, Jeff; Gilbertson, Ashley (October 24, 2013). "A Game of Shark and Minnow". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  8. ↑ Piatetsky, Gregory. "Exclusive: Interview with Chris Wiggins, NYTimes Chief Data Scientist". www.kdnuggets.com. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  9. ↑ Cookson, Clive (2013-07-26). "Edward Tufte". FT Magazine. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2015-09-27.

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