data visualization for everyone

Posted: July 14th, 2008 | Author: sofia | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: data visualization |

Just found out about the wonderful project by IBM Many Eyes that alows anyone to create data visualizations without any programming knowledge (the usual suspects are flash/actionscript and processing) whatsoever.

In their own words:

“Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to ‘democratize’ visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. ”

On the usability side, the creators are to be congratulated on the simplicity of the whole interface. The user chooses a dataset - it is also possible to upload datasets - and then chooses a visualization type, eg. tagcloud, line graph, etc, previews, and publishes it! Really simple :=)

I actually created two visualizations, one on Obama’s speeches and another on Alice in Wonderland. Since the applets are interactive you can change the words and a new visualization will pop up.

note: may take a little while to load

Obama’s ‘We’

Alice in Wonderland - you, won’t

playing with alice’s playful dialogue

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