[FRIAM] More data visualizations

[Robert Holmes]

Phil,

You're always asking for datsets and the site Tom linked to is full of them
(http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/browse/data). How about using
your tools on one of them and then reporting back to the group? I'm sure
we'd all be happy to comment on the results once we had a concrete example
of the power of your tools.

Robert



On 1/24/07, Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com> wrote:
>
> Fantastic stuff!    Wish I had some of those talents.
>
> But for the time related stuff people doing these kinds of things
> should single out some of the things that have definate beginnings and
> ends (that's a real strong indicator of emergence) and put them into
> the context of their original and final developmental processes
> (extending the window to their *whole* bump on the curve, even if you
> only have data for a part).  You can't always single them out, but
> when you can it gives you a way to ask well directed questions that
> make it easier to peer inside them to see what's happening.
>
> >
> > Pardon the expression, but there seems to be a real "surge" in
> infographics
> > and visual statistics news in recent days.  This post on Tim O'Reilly
> > blog<http://radar.oreilly.com>(an increasingly informative site, I
> > find) points us to some interesting
> > tools out of the IBM shop.  Be sure to check out the site for "Many
> Eyes."
> > Impressive, and highly informative visualization of useful data.
> >  IBM Wants Many Eyes on
> > Visualization<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/oreilly/radar/atom/%
> 7E3/80299451/ibm_wants_many.html>
> > Posted: 23 Jan 2007 11:25 AM CST
> > http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/ibm_wants_many.html
> >
> > By Tim O'Reilly
> >
> > IBM today announced Many
> > Eyes<http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home>,
> > a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. Martin
> > Wattenberg<http://www.bewitched.com/research.html>,
> > who developed the original version of the
> > treemap<http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/>we use for our book
> > market visualizations as well as the awesome baby
> > name voyager <http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html>,
> and Fernanda
> > Viegas <http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/fernanda.html>, who
> worked with
> > him on the equally awesome history flow visualizations of
> > Wikipedia<http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/>,
> > are the geniuses behind this project.
> >
> > [image: Many Eyes home page]
> > <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/ManyEyeshome_page.html>
> >
> > As with swivel <http://www.swivel.com/>, users can upload any data
> set, but
> > the tools for visualizing and graphing the data are much richer. The
> > visualization
> >
> options<https://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Visualization
> _Options.html>include
> > US and World maps, line graphs, stack graphs, bar charts, block
> > histograms, bubble diagrams, scatter plots, network diagrams, pie
> charts,
> > and treemaps. The site isn't yet live, but should be very shortly.
> > Meanwhile, you can get a good sense of the types of graphs available
> by
> > checking out the visualization
> >
> gallery<http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/browse/visualizatio
> ns>
> > .
> >
> > I asked Martin and Fernanda how they compared themselves to swivel,
> and
> > Fernanda replied:
> >
> > You also asked if we see our site as "Swivel for visualization".
> That phrase
> > isn't quite accurate (any more than Swivel is "Many Eyes for data" ;-
> ). Both
> > our site and Swivel are examples of a broader phenomenon, which we
> call
> > "social data analysis," where playful, social exploration of data
> leads to
> > serious analysis. At the same time the two sites fall on different
> ends of a
> > spectrum. Swivel seems to have some neat data mining technology that
> finds
> > correlations automatically. By contrast, we've placed our emphasis
> on the
> > power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. My guess is
> that both
> > approaches will be successful because social data analysis is a
> powerful
> > idea.
> >
> > Martin added:
> >
> > In Many Eyes our goal is to "democratize" visualization by offering
> it as a
> > simple service. We also think that there's something special about
> > visualizations that gets people talking, so we placed a big emphasis
> in
> > design and technology to let people have conversations around the
> > visualizations.
> >
> > Personally, I'd love to see swivel and manyeyes working together, as
> swivel
> > already has some great data sets, but has only a limited number of
> graphing
> > tools. But that's an exercise for the future. For now, data wonks
> can just
> > rejoice that both sites exist, and should start exploring, and as
> Martin
> > says, conversing about what they find. I love both of these sites.
> >
> > -- tj
> >
> > ==========================================
> > J. T. Johnson
> > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> > www.analyticjournalism.com
> > 505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
> > http://www.jtjohnson.com                 tom at jtjohnson.us
> >
> > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> > To change something, build a new model that makes the
> > existing model obsolete."
> >                                                    -- Buckminster
> Fuller
> > ==========================================
> >
> >
>
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