Show HN: Dashboard of public NHTSA data
demos.zoomdata.comCare to share details on the technical implementation? What do you have powering the backend?
Sure! Full Disclosure: I run frontend engineering for Zoomdata. Zoomdata is powering the backend, it's a server that connects to big data sources. In this case, Cloudera Impala, but we also connect to plenty of other big data stores like Elastic Search, Solr, etc. Zoomdata queries those big data stores, then streams the results over a websocket to visualizations. We have a web interface for analyzing your data in standard charts, but we also allow for total customization of visualizations (like for building this dashboard). Those visualizations can be embedded using iframes, or a more advanced approach using a javascript library. I used our javascript library to embed these visualizations into my own web based dashboard.
You can find out more at our website: http://www.zoomdata.com/
And we're hiring experienced JS devs in the bay area!
Awesome! Great design and really useful!