Rome’s Invisible City

Sometime last week “Rome’s Invisible City” aired on the telly here in Belgium. With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong, along with Dr Michael Scott, explores the hidden underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world. In his favourite city, he uncovers …

Crafting Data-Driven Maps

At Uber, we use maps for everything — visualizing millions of geo data points, monitoring road conditions, and advocating for policy change in cities around the world. Over the last few years we have experienced immense growth. As a result, we have many teams across the organization producing map visualizations for a wide range of needs. We …

How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data

Singapore GovTech data scientists share how they identified a rogue train as the cause of the recent MRT Circle Line disruptions: Singapore’s MRT Circle Line was hit by a spate of mysterious disruptions in recent months, causing much confusion and distress to thousands of commuters. From prior investigations by train operator SMRT and the Land …

deck.gl – Large-scale WebGL-powered Data Visualization

New open sourced project by Uber Engineering, for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets: At Uber, the many GPS points we process every day serves needs across the company. If we have a problem in our platform, we can diagnose it by exploring historical geolocation data. If there’s an accident on the road, we …

Webpack Module Tree Visualizer

Visualize and analyze your Webpack bundle to see which modules are taking up space and which might be duplicates. Generate JSON stats, and pass it into the online tool. webpack –json > stats.json You can also use the plugin locally if you want. Webpack Visualizer → Related: Disc – Browserify Module Tree Visualizer →

Disc – Browserify Module Tree Visualizer

Disc is a tool for analyzing the module tree of browserify project bundles. It’s especially handy for catching large and/or duplicate modules which might be either bloating up your bundle or slowing down the build process. Build your bundle with the –full-paths flag and then pass that to discify: browserify –full-paths index.js > bundle.js discify …