Torque
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Render big, timeseries data in the client. Uses CartoDB to generate a datacube format. For a brief introduction to the format and methods, see our [presentation slides](http://gijs.github.com/images/cartodb_datacubes.pdf)
CartoDB users can use this code right away. Specify your username/tablename and datecolumn to get mapping time immediatley.
Have fun!
* Play with your own data: http://cartodb.github.com/torque/
* The Guardian's Data Blog write-up of Royal Navy ships in WWI: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/oct/01/first-world-war-royal-navy-ships-mapped
* A car in Nürburgring track: http://cartodb.github.com/torque/examples/car.html
## Torque library reference
Torque lets you render big, timeseries or categorical data in the client. This is useful for many modern applications that need more than just a static map. Early versions of Torque have been used to visualize human movement, Twitter activity, biodiversity data, and many more large-scale datasets.
The library uses CartoDB to generate a [layercube](https://github.com/CartoDB/tilecubes/blob/master/2.0/spec.md) format. For a brief introduction to the format and methods, see our [presentation slides](http://gijs.github.com/images/cartodb_datacubes.pdf). If you are not using CartoDB to host your data, you can modify the input parameters to point toward any layercube service.
### Getting started
The simplest way to use a visualization with Torque is...
#### Create a simple Torque visualization
```javascript
...
...
```
[Grab the complete example source code](https://github.com/CartoDB/torque/blob/master/examples/navy_leaflet.html)
### API
[see reference](https://github.com/CartoDB/torque/blob/master/doc/API.md)