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IBM Many Eyes After One Month

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the measuring-the-web dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "IBM's Many Eyes app, a 'shared visualization and discovery' service, has been running for a month now. In this article two of the IBM researchers behind Many Eyes, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda B. Viégas, showcase some of the best visualizations so far. They also talk about the future of 'social data analysis' on the Web. Wattenberg and Viégas believe that Many Eyes is not just social software, but 'societal-scale software.' They say that Many Eyes represents a break from conventional visualization research. Traditionally, computer scientists concentrate on scaling in terms of data, making visualizations work for bigger and bigger databases. IBM's agenda with Many Eyes is to scale the audience, not the data."

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  1. What a coincidence by Prysorra · · Score: 5, Informative

    It must be more important than I thought - I just found out about it by accident a couple of days ago.

    In case anyone is curious - Google is also into the data-visualization market. The Gap Minder is now avaible directly as an online Google App: Link to GapMinder

    Is there a surging market here we haven't seen yet?

  2. Swivel by chato · · Score: 2, Informative

    Swivel offers a similar service. One of the best things of Swivel is that datasets are usually shared by users under a Creative Commons License.