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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. Wordstar vs Many Eyes by bailey+don · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Twenty years ago and more, when Wordstar finished running a spell check it counted all the words, then made a table of the all words used by occurrence ranking.

  2. Comparison of Swivel and Many Eyes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For a (very!) in-depth comparison of Swivel and Many Eyes, see http://eagereyes.org/VisCrit/Swivel-vs-Many-Eyes.h tml