More data visualizations

[Phil Henshaw-2]

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<<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/oreilly/radar/atom/%">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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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        
tel: [phone]                
e-mail: sy at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com

[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<<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/oreilly/radar/atom/%">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
> > ==========================================
> >
> >
>
> --
> Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> tel: [phone]
> e-mail: sy at synapse9.com
> explorations: www.synapse9.com
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