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The New York Times’ Many Eyes
Colin’s post on 200 million faces showed a great data visualization example from the New York Times. We have gotten used to seeing great visualization work from the newspaper’s visualization team which is at the leading edge of this rapidly developing discipline. Two weeks ago this NYT visualization of box office receipts won best of show at the Malofiej awards, the equivalent of the Oscar for data visualizations.
One of the most interesting collaborations in this space is that of the NYT and IBM’s Many Eyes . Many Eyes is a project that was born out of IBM’s Watson Research centre. Its idea was to “democratize” data visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. The Many Eyes site gives anyone the ability to create visualizations using the site’s tools. Here’s an example of one of the many visualizations people have done of Barack Obama’s inauguration speech.
You can either build visualizations using your own data or you can go to the NYT visualization lab website and play around with some of the data they have made available. Last month, in this spirit of distributed journalism, the NYT opened up data from their entire archive to the public through API’s. Shortly after that the Guardian in the UK did exactly the same. This will make masses of data available to anyone who wants to play with it. The combination of this democratization of data with open platforms like Many Eyes is bound to produce very exciting work.
[...] Dimitri posted last week on IBM’s new fascinating new software Many Eyes. This is an open site that allows you to bring your own data and use IBM’s state-of-the-art visualization tools to bring them to life. (The uses to which people have put them make a telling story of the arcane interests of those in the data visualization cult!) [...]
Dimitri,
Is there a way we can get the pictures/attachments to be downloaded as I can’t read the detail of these and when I try and save them and open them up they are unreadable due to the resolution.
Thanks,
Paul
that’s strange – both of these are linked. The eb and flow graph is linked to the NYT interactive version and the Many Eyes interactive graph is embedded. It seems to work fine on my computer. Maybe it’s got something to do with your settings. I have had problems before with some of the many eyes graphs.
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