High Performance Data Visualizations in JavaScript

• Name : Vladimir Agafonkin
• Twitter : @mourner
• Github : mourner
• Website : agafonkin.com/en

Abstract

If you thought that building rich, interactive and mobile-friendly visualizations of high volume data with 100,000+ points just using the power of browser-side JavaScript was impossible, this talk will prove you wrong.

We’ll review every important aspect of achieving peak performance and responsiveness for these types of applications, including search indexes and tree structures, computational geometry and clustering algorithms, real-time data simplification, fast collision detection, advanced use of Web Workers and mixing Canvas with SVG and HTML.

This is a refined and improved version of the talk given at Front-Trends 2013 in Warsaw (slides, video).

Speaker Bio

Vladimir Agafonkin is a front-end developer, open source enthusiast and one of the leading engineers in online maps industry. Creator of Leaflet, the number one open source JavaScript library for interactive maps (used by Flickr, foursquare, craigslist, IGN, The Washington Post, Wikipedia and many others). Works as a Principal Architect at Universal Mind.