Visualizing Large Datasets with JavaScript Using deck.gl

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Uses deck.gl and luma.gl with Mapbox/Google Maps to render layered geospatial visuals via WebGL instancing and GPU 64-bit emulation, showing concrete results: 158k points from NYC census, ~1M vertices for 30‑minute taxi trips, a wind map of 11.3 million particles, and a 180k LiDAR point cloud; demos run interactively in the browser, integrate with React/Angular/Vue, cite Kepler.GL and Streetscape GL, and report 1–3 million points performing smoothly.

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1. 0:00Why visualize data
2. 6:03Introduction to deck.gl
3. 10:21WebGL and performance
4. 13:56Real-time geospatial demos
5. 21:43How deck.gl works
6. 27:02Tools built on deck.gl
7. 31:24Creative visualizations
8. 33:55Resources and inspiration
9. 35:20Q&A and limitations

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