Sha Hwang

Sha Hwang
Design Technologist, Trulia

@shashashasha | Attendee Directory Profile

Sha studied and worked in architecture before diving headfirst into data visualization at Stamen Design. Last year, Sha cofounded a startup called Movity focused on visualization and cities. Movity was recently acquired by the real estate company Trulia to bring their work to a national audience. Sha is endlessly fascinated by maps, data, design, and cities.

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Sessions

1:00pm Monday, 04/02/2012
A Guidebook to Advanced Mapping Techniques
Workshop Yerba Buena Salon 1-3
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Sha Hwang (Trulia)
Mapping tools keep cropping up all over the place, and data is everywhere. What are the pros and cons of the various mapping libraries? Should this information be visualized as a heatmap, as a sea of points, or something else? What are some new directions to explore in mapping and visualization? Read more.
2:45pm Tuesday, 04/03/2012
Office Hour with Sha Hwang
Office Hours Exhibit Hall (Office Hours A)
Sha Hwang (Trulia)
Stop by and chat with Sha Hwang, Design Technologist at Trulia. Read more.
3:45pm Tuesday, 04/03/2012
Trulia's Stack
Stack Yerba Buena Salon 12-14
Sha Hwang (Trulia)
Trulia is churning through millions of datapoints around crime, schools, homes and businesses to help people find a place to live. We're building our Geo stack on Python, Tilestache, and GeoDjango to deploy this information nationwide and pushing the limits of highly dynamic prototyping with Javascript and Web Workers. Read more.
4:20pm Tuesday, 04/03/2012
Life after Mercator
Location Development Yerba Buena Salon 1-3
Sha Hwang (Trulia)
The Spherical Mercator projection is one of the core assumptions powering much of the innovation in interactive online mapping — but what happens next? How can the form of maps themselves become dynamic, not just the visual style or the information overlaid? Read more.
  • Esri
  • AT&T Interactive
  • Google
  • Nokia, Location & Commerce
  • Facebook
  • Bing
  • Control Group
  • Localeze
  • MyCityWay
  • Socrata
  • Urban Airship
  • MapQuest

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