I just found this awesome interactive data visualization from here.
As you can see, this can be seen as a PPT slide, or a dashboard, or a web page for displaying the concept of IoT(Internet of Things), how IoT is used on different sides of real life, and main companies involved in IoT’s development.
With computers being made into wearable devices, and big data analysis and internet connection becoming more and more convenient, now it’s time for us to build some magic. We won’t need to use a remote to change TV channel or go back home to heat the dinner, the IoT would complete these for us. It can even open the curtains and wake us up in the morning. To achieving these, we need to integrate the things we want to connect with different kinds of sensors, mini-computers, wires and so on.
Let’s go back to the visualization, we can see that it includes a timeline of IoT, a divergent line chart displaying various ways of IoT(with one click it can furtherly display the specific IoTs), the detailed IoT devices, explicit IoT data, the flow process of IoT, and the companies building IoT(one bad thing about this is that a lot of company names are not showing on the chart, but we can go to their website by clicking on the circle). Also the whole visualization has a uniform set of colors, making people comfortable to read it and take in the information it conveys. I think this is a good example of data visualization and hope to adapt to it in my future works.
From what I’ve seen , the challenge is that the focus is on the Things, not the Internet. The value is not in connecting Things together, but abstracting and combining data, events and control.