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Many EyesA Site for Social Data Analysis
Fernanda Viégas & Martin WattenbergVisual Communication Lab / CUE / IBM
Information Visualization Uses
Scientific discovery
Personal expression
A conspiracy Playboy centerfolds
The Koran
Journalism and advocacy
The New York Times
Hans Rosling
As a social medium…
Social interaction?
NameVoyager
Not the audience we (or they) expected
“This rules, even though it’s about baby names.”blogger #1
“Cool… By the way, I don’t like babies or children.”
blogger #2
“No I’m not pregnant - one must have sex for that to be possible”
blogger #3
“For a challenge, try finding a name that was popular at the beginning of the sample
(around 1900), went out of style, then came back into vogue recently”
Some blog comments
Some blog comments
“For a challenge, try finding a name that was popular at the beginning of the sample
(around 1900), went out of style, then came back into vogue recently”
“Take a look at Grace, #18 in the 1900s, #13 in 2003, and down in the 200s and 300s
during mid-century”.
“1900’s comeback: Porter. Another one, with a mini-peak in trough: Caroline,”
“More challenges: which is the steadiest popular name? Victor?” and “Which letter has
gone down most consistently? W? Observation: Note the recent upsurge in Y; basically all
due to Hispanic (and some Middle Eastern) names”
Public discourse2004 US presidential election results
County-level election results
Public discourse2004 US presidential election results
Color-coding indicates percentages of voters
Public discourse2004 US presidential election results
Cartogram: counties rescaled according to population
Public discourse2004 US presidential election results
Research Agenda: Massive public visualization
Traditionally visualization researchers look at scaling the size of the data.
But what happens when the audience scales?
1. Massively collaborative
- internet scale: huge potential community
- tens of thousands of viewers, thousands of commentators
- easy for end users
2. Not just for analysis, but for communication, conversation
- discovery
- personal expression
- journalism
- public debate
3. Visual
- not simply collaboration around text
- use human visual intelligence, not data mining
Demohttp://www.many-eyes.com
a site where people:
- view and discuss visualizations
- view and discuss data
- create visualizations from existing data
- upload their own data to visualize
Blogs as community petri dish?
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.
Visualization for advocacy (and solace)
1 An active user on Many Eyes 2 He writes about some of his visualizations
3 One of the visualizations shows MS frequency 4 This is reblogged by an MSer who knows Garry (“one my favorite uprights”)
Social data analysis: a growing area
WikiSky
Wikimapia
Google Earth community
Swivel
Data360
Scientific
discovery
Personal
expression
Journalism
and advocacy
Social
interaction
A new medium?
• Science
• Microarray data
• Chemistry
• single nucleotide polymorphisms
• Politics & War
• global CO2 vs. temperature vs. time
• Iraq
•Literature
• words in Swinburne’s poetry
• Pride and Prejudice
• Green Eggs and Ham
• Religion
• Bible
• Potential Converts
• Personal information
• Family trees
• Running, swimming, weight loss
• Nick and Betty’s gift-giving network
• Books read
• Countries visited
• Del.icio.us tags
visual communication lab / CUE / Cambridge
www.many-eyes.com
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