John Chambers: Interfaces, Efficiency and Big Data
From the description:
At useR! 2014, John Chambers was generous enough to provide us with insight into the very early stages of user-centric interactive data exploration. He explains, step by step, how his insight to provide an interface into algorithms, putting the user first has placed us on the fruitful path which analysts, statisticians, and data scientists enjoy to this day. In his talk, John Chambers also does a fantastic job of highlighting a number of active projects, new and vibrant in the R ecosystem, which are helping to continue this legacy of “a software interface into the best algorithms.” The future is bright, and new and dynamic ideas are building off these thoughtful, well measured, solid foundations of the past.
To understand why this past is so important, I’d like to provide a brief view of the historical context that underpins these breakthroughs. In 1976, John Chambers was concerned with making software supported interactive numerical analysis a reality. Let’s talk about what other advances were happening in 1976 in the field of software and computing:
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You should read the rest of the back story before watching the keynote by Chambers.
Will your next interface build upon the collective experience with interfaces or will it repeat some earlier experience?
I first saw this in John Chambers: Interfaces, Efficiency and Big Data by David Smith.