Nicolas Garcia Belmonte

Software

deck.gl - WebGL Visualization Layers by Uber's Visualization Team
Multilevel Agglomerative Edge Bundling - JavaScript implementation of the MINGLE edge bundling algorithm (with extensions)
Line Integral Convolution - JavaScript WebGL implementation of Line Integral Convolution techniques to visualize vector fields
PhiloGL - A WebGL Framework for advanced data visualization, creative coding and game development.
V8-GL: Desktop hardware accelerated graphics with JavaScript - Before WebGL existed I added bindings to V8 to expose the OpenGL API in Chrome.
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Create Web Standards based interactive data visualizations.

Talks, Interviews & Articles

Apr 2017 Wind map process in Deck.gl blog.
Apr 2017 Uber's open source data visualization tool now goes beyond maps in Techcrunch.
Apr 2017 Deck.gl v4: Uber's framework for advanced data visualization in Uber Engineering Blog.
Nov 2016 Deck.gl in Uber Engineering Blog.
May 2016 Engineering intelligence through data visualization at Uber in Uber Engineering Blog.
Aug 2015 The Pulse of a City: How People Move Using Engineering at Uber in Uber Engineering Blog.
Aug 2015 Author of chapter "Data Visualization Techniques with WebGL" in WebGL Insights
Apr 2015 WebGL for Graphics and Data Visualization - OpenVisConf in Boston, MA
Nov 2014 From Data Journalism to Data Illustration - Visualizing Data with JavaScript at Twitter - JSConf Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina (slides)
Nov 2014 The Geography of Tweets - BBC Developer Conference in London, UK (slides) (video)
Nov 2014 Extracting and Visualizing Insights from Real-Time Conversations Around Public Presentations - IEEE Vis in Paris, France (short paper) (poster)
Aug 2014 Hacking public-facing data visualizations at Twitter - The Graphical Web in Winchester, UK (video)
Aug 2014 Interview by the Brazilian magazine "Epoca"
Jul 2014 Interview by the Peruvian newspaper "El Comercio"
Mar 2014 How we made the SOTU Twitter visualization for Source
Mar 2014 Presented a demo at Tapestry Conference in Annapolis, MA
Feb 2014 Twitter's Nicolas Belmonte on his State of the Union Visualization - Q&A with the Society for News Design (SND)
Dec 2013 Growing a Language for Graphics - DotJS in Paris, France (video)
Oct 2013 #Interactive: Data Visualization at Twitter - Data Visualization Meetup at Twitter HQs, San Francisco, CA (video)
May 2013 La visualisation de données comme outil pour découvrir et partager des idées sur le Web - SudWeb 2013 at Avignon, France (video)
Feb 2013 Exploring Web Standards for High Data Density Visualizations - Strata Conference at Santa Clara, CA, USA
Oct 2012 Article - Image and video post-processing with WebGL - Opera Software
Jun 2012 Interview for Fayerwayer - Dos Latinos en Silicon Valley - Fayerwayer at Santiago, Chile (video)
May 2012 JavaScript for Graphics and Data Visualization - JSConf Argentina at Buenos Aires, Argentina (video)
May 2012 New JavaScript Tools for Data Visualization - Dynamic Languages Meetup at Santiago, Chile
Apr 2012 Data visualization for the Web - Stanford ACM Tech Talks at Palo Alto, CA, USA
Mar 2012 Leaving Flatland: Getting Started with WebGL - SXSW at Austin, TX, USA
Oct 2011 WebGL Fundamentals - SenchaCon at Austin, TX, USA (video)
Sep 2011 Principles of Analytical Design - Visual.ly group meetup at Mountain View, CA, USA
Sep 2011 New Tools for Visualization in JavaScript - Data Visualization group meetup at San Francisco, CA, USA
Aug 2011 PhiloGL: an overview - WebGL BOF SIGGRAPH at Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jun 2011 PhiloGL: A WebGL Framework for data visualization, creative coding and game development - WebGL Camp at Google HQs at Moutain View, CA, USA (video)
Dec 2010 Creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web with the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0 - YOW! Developer Conferences at Melbourne, Australia
Sep 2010 JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0: Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web - JSConf Europe at Berlin, Germany (video)
Nov 2009 Using Web Standards to create Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web - Parisian Seminar on Information Visualization and HCI at Paris, France
2007 JavaScript and the Web 2.0 - BarCamp at Buenos Aires, Argentina