Open Visualization Session Proposal: A5: developing a new spatial index in 2025 with deck.gl #457
Description
Proposal
Topic of the session
Journey of coming up with the A5 spatial index. Will describe the creative process, with a focus on how AI tools helped or didn't help with various tasks.
Type of the session
- Collaborate
- Workshop
- Talk
Estimated duration of the session
30 minutes
Date and Time of the session
October 8, time TBD
Level
Intermediate, knowledge of deck.gl useful. However many of the topics should apply to software engineers in general.
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Pre-requisite knowledge
No required, although an high-level understanding of A5 will be useful. The talk will give a brief overview of the system, but will be more focused on how it was built, rather than how it works.
Describe the session
- A5 overview
- Inspiration
- Developing with deck.gl as a prototyping framework
- Use of Gen AI
- Porting strategy, community involvement
- Q&A
Session facilitator(s), Github handle(s) and timezone(s)
Felix Palmer (@felixpalmer) - CEST
Meeting notes and Virtual Meeting Link
Follow-up / Set-up sessions (if any)
Additional context (optional)