Open Visualization Collaboration Space Blog
Deep dives into the Open Visualization frameworks and applications
The vis.gl blog introduces new releases, provides in-depth technical expositions and showcases applications of the vis.gl frameworks. Guest posts are welcome!
Note that many older vis.gl blog posts can also be browsed directly on Medium.
Open Source Data Visualization Project deck.gl v9 Released
Mar 27, 2024
A major milestone in terms of modernizing the deck.gl ecosystem.
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Introducing kepler.gl 3.0
Dec 21, 2023
An major and long awaited update to the leading open geospatial applicaton for the web.
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Visualizing Success: Year One of the OpenVis Collaboration Space
Jul 10, 2023
An overview of the extensive progress in the deck.gl ecosystem since joining the OpenJS foundation.
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OpenJS Open Visualization Collaborator Summit - Madrid
Sep 1, 2022
The first Open Visualization summit brought visualization experts from all over the world to Madrid.
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OpenJS World 2022: OpenJS Foundation Welcomes Urban Computing Foundation, vis.gl and kepler.gl
Jun 7, 2022
deck.gl and the vis.gl frameworks suite has been accepted into the OpenJS foundation.
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deck.gl 8.2 moves to Open Governance
Apr 7, 2020
deck.gl and the vis.gl frameworks suite is now under open governance through the Linux Foundation and the Urban Cumputing Foundation.
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pydeck: Unlocking deck.gl for use in Python
Oct 15, 2019
The power of deck.gl is now available to Python and Jupyter notebooks.
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Exploring Geospatial Data with kepler.gl
Aug 26, 2019
A showcase of how kepler.gl helps leverage the power of the vis.gl frameworks for geospatial analytics.
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Vis Hackathon 2019
Jul 23, 2019
A range of visualization projects using the vis.gl frameworks and beyond.
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Kepler.gl: Export Map
Jul 22, 2019
kepler.gl now supports exporting maps for use on the web.
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Introducing kepler.gl for Jupyter
Jun 25, 2019
kepler.gl can now be controlled from Jupyter notebooks.
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Uber’s vis.gl brings glTF to geospatial data visualization
Jun 18, 2019
The Khronos glTF format brings high-quality models and pysically-based rendering to the vis.gl frameworks.
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Using deck.gl with Google Maps
May 7, 2019
deck.gl now provides a new module enabling deck.gl to be used with Google basemaps.
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Introducing deck.gl v7.0
Apr 26, 2019
deck.gl v7 brings a slew of new layers, lighting support, binary data support and more.
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Kepler.gl + Dropbox = Map Save & Share
Apr 22, 2019
kepler.gl now provides integration with cloud storage enabling maps to be saved.
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How (sometimes) assuming the Earth is “flat” helps speed up rendering in deck.gl
Oct 29, 2018
An deep-dive into the new optimized geospatial projection engine in deck.gl v6.2
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GPU Accelerated Aggregation in deck.gl
Oct 16, 2018
deck.gl v6.2 moves aggregation related computation to the GPU.
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deck.gl and Mapbox GL JS: Better Together
Oct 15, 2018
The deck.gl and Mapbox teams have collaborated on deep WebGL integration enabling new use cases when using deck.gl with Mapbox basemaps.
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Mapping the Parisian trees
May 29, 2018
Showcase of how to work with a dataset in kepler.gl.
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Visualizing Unemployment for U.S. Counties with kepler.gl
May 29, 2018
Showcase of how to work with a specific dataset in kepler.gl.
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Using Kepler.gl and Movement to Visualize Traffic Effects of a Rainstorm
May 29, 2018
Showcase of how to work with a specific dataset in kepler.gl.
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Animating 40 years of California Earthquakes
May 19, 2018
Showcase of how to work with a specific dataset in kepler.gl.
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Start Scripting with deck.gl
Apr 24, 2018
deck.gl can now be used directly from HTML scripts without the use of npm packages.
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Automatic, GPU-based object highlighting in deck.gl Layers
Mar 26, 2018
Highligting the selected object in a layer is now handled by deck.gl directly on the GPU.
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Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections In WebGL
Feb 27, 2018
A visual exploration of alternaive mathematical approaches to flatten the Earth sphere.
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Introducing luma.gl v4.0
Jul 24, 2017
A summary of luma.gl improvements and early roadmaps.
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Wind Map
Apr 16, 2017
A showcase of using deck.gl for particle animations and vector field visualizations.
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Rendering A Minecraft World With deck.gl
Apr 11, 2017
An alternate use case for deck.gl.
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The Birth of a Visualization Framework Suite
Jul 24, 2017
vis.gl is a new suite of frameworks centered around deck.gl focused on big geospatial data visualization.
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Introducing deck.gl v4.0
Apr 2, 2017
The second major public release of deck.gl brings a wide range of improvements.
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