What Many Eyes KnowsLessons in collaborative visualization

Irene GreifIBM Fellow

Center for Social Software

IBM Research

There is a pent up desire to analyze

All that’s needed is a simple toolset

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What’s more, once given the tools…

… people will find surprising uses

1 User “crossway” uploads co-occurrence

data for biblical figures to Many Eyes

2 Crossway uses the network diagram

tool to create a graph visualization

3 Crossway writes about the

visualization on ESV blog

4 Many blogs (almost 100 by Google’s count)

write about crossway’s blog entry.

5 One of these bloggers posts new data to

Many Eyes—and, of course, blogs about the results.

The long list of responses/trackbacks on the ESV blog entry: a discussion about the visualization and analysis.

Surprising Domain, Typical Pattern

Finally…

…words rule!

Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech

Obama vs. McCain (“promise” vs. “fight”)

Former attorney general Gonzales

What IBM Research knows now:

Many Eyes is an example of Venture Research

Scalable real world deployments let research keep up with wisdom of crowds

The central theme of IBM’s Center for Social Software

http://www.many-eyes.com

http://www.research.ibm.com/social