Torque == 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]() 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
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... ``` [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)