Many Eyes: crowdsourcing + social computing + InfoViz
| After selling its PC division, IBM recently dropped the printer business. At the same time, they explore other paths such as the super-mediatized SL but also other interesting platforms. I have intrigued by Many Eyes. Internet News has a short discussion about it: |  |
IBM (Quote) launched a new social computing site today called Many Eyes, which allows users to upload very large data sets, choose different visual representations for the data sets, and engage in an online discussion of what the data reveals. Each visualization will allow for an active discussion to take place and become a common area to share ideas, add insight and understand the visualization in a group setting.
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an attempt to learn whether the principles of crowd-sourcing can be applied to the analysis of visualized data, in the hopes of generating broader and deeper analysis of data.
Why do I blog this? I find interesting the IBM attempts to try and test new applications in the domain of social computing.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Many Eyes looks really exciting. I’m not a numbers person, so analyzing data sets sounds about as fun as a root canal, until I get the data in visual form. I love how Many Eyes offers a variety of visualizations for any given data set, letting people who think and analyze in very different ways access it in the manner that is most meaningful to them, and then facilitates the sharing of discoveries.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:25 am
Looks very interesting. http://swivel.com has a similar idea, except the graphs are non-interactive and reduced to basic line/bar/pie charts. On the other hand, they are stressing more the community aspect and allow the direct embedding of diagrams on other pages as pictures. My guess is that although ManyEyes is much more elaborate concerning the visualization, the integration, community and simplicity factor will bring more people to use swivel.