Nicolas Garcia Belmonte

04/12-now

Data Visualization Scientist - Twitter

I work in the Analytics team developing data visualizations and tools for exploratory data analysis. Other duties include working with other teams (growth, comms, etc) on data gathering, data analysis and creating both exploratory and expository visualizations of data.

10/10-03/12

Senior Software Architect - Sencha Inc.

Lead Architect for the Graphics team at Sencha. Architectured and implemented the visualization package shipped with ExtJS and Sencha Touch products.
Administrator and mentor for the Sencha Labs Foundation at Google Summer of Code 2011.

01/08-now

Author - Open Source Projects

02/11-now

PhiloGL

PhiloGL is a WebGL Framework for data visualization, creative coding and game development.

PhiloGL provides a rich module system for program and shader management, IO, Web Workers, effects, and much more. More information can be found in the Sencha article and the Ars Technica article.

01/08-now

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools to create interactive data visualizations for the Web.

The toolkit has TreeMaps, SpaceTrees, Hyperbolic Trees, RGraphs and other visualizations.
Some organizations using the toolkit are the White House and the Mozilla Foundation.
In 2010, the project was acquired by Sencha Labs. In 2011, the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit was selected as a project for the Google Summer of Code.

01/09-01/10

V8-GL

V8-GL is a JavaScript toolkit for creating desktop hardware accelerated graphics with JS. The toolkit provides C++ OpenGL, OpenGL ES and GLUT bindings to Google's V8 JavaScript engine.

04/10-09/10

Labs Software Engineer - Exalead

Created advanced visualizations of data indexed by Exalead products.

02/08-04/10

R&D Software Engineer - Exalead

Was in charge of the Merchandising module, a rule-based recommendation system that generates complex queries based on complete or partial matches of search results, developed in Java, Groovy and GWT.
Was in charge of client/server side development of Administration Interfaces, mainly written in Java and GWT, for the Exalead enterprise platform.

2006-2007

Software Developer - Netlabs

Developer and chief architect of web applications mainly programmed in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (AJAX), XML, XSL, PHP 4.0/5.0 and Oracle and MySQL databases.

2012

Twitter Political Engagement Map

Worked on a map to visualize political engagement on Twitter. Featured at NYTimes and Wired among other places.

2012

#Euro 2012 Visualization

Created a 2012 eurocup visualization at Twitter. Featured at Twitter's blog, Flowing Data, Infosthetics.

2012

Wind Motion Patterns

Wind Motion Patterns displays information about wind speed, direction and temperature across the US in a 72 hour period. Featured in FastCompany Design and Flowing Data.

2011

World Flights

Visualize major airlines flying routes. Featured in Google Chrome Experiments.

2011

Google DataViz Challenge

Won an Honorable mention for a visualization on how the US budget is spent, more information here and here.

2011

Visualizing Temperature Anomalies

A WebGL data visualization of world temperature anomalies using NASA imagery data and PhiloGL. Featured in Google Chrome Experiments.

02/13

Exploring Web Standards for High Data Density Visualizations at Strata in Santa Clara, CA.

05/12

JavaScript for Graphics and Data Visualization at JSConf Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

03/12

Leaving Flatland: Getting Started with WebGL at SXSW in Austin, TX.

10/11

WebGL Fundamentals at SenchaCon 2011 in Austin, TX.

09/11

Principles of Analytical Design at Visual.ly group meetup in Mountain View, CA. Slides here.

09/11

New Tools for Visualization in JavaScript at Data Visualization group meetup in San Francisco, CA. Slides here.

08/11

PhiloGL: an overview at WebGL BOF at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

06/11

PhiloGL: A WebGL Framework for data visualization, creative coding and game development at WebGL Camp at Google HQs in Moutain View, CA, USA.

12/10

Creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web with the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0 at YOW! Developer Conferences in Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia.

07/10

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit 2.0: Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web at JSConf.EU in Berlin, Germany.

2009

Using Web Standards to create Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web at the Parisian Seminar on Information Visualization and HCI in Paris, France.

2007

JavaScript and the Web 2.0 (a talk for BarCamp) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

03/06-12/07

Computer Science Engineering

Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Argentina

03/01-12/05

Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering

Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Argentina

Web / Scripting: Advanced JavaScript (2D Canvas, WebGL, Workers, XHR, etc.), Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS, SVG
Application Development: C, C++
Languages I like to play with: Scala, Common Lisp, OCaml
Enterprise Oriented: Java, Groovy
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL

French (native), English (advanced) and Spanish (native)