Big data visualization

Abstract

Computer based visualizations have been a popular approach that provides accurate and efficient visualization techniques to the users. There is an increasing growth in geographical data with the development of mobile devices. There is a trend to analyze the human behaviors and patterns with respect to the geographical locations in order to take decisions and predictions. This paper presents a Human Movement Visualizer tool to provide populating flow data between regions of a given map. The tool was designed to use with modern web browsers by implementing the complete functionality of the system using client-side JavaScript language. Also the tool can integrate with other visualization tools by introducing component based architecture to the system. Users of this tool can give a Shapefile as a base map and CSV (Comma Separated Values) based data to visualize the geographical data. The main goal of this tool is to provide visualizations for the transport planning in Sri Lanka.