title: ManyEyes: a site for visualization at internet scale.
abstract: We describe the design and deployment of Many Eyes, a public web site where users may upload data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on discussions. The goal of the site is to support collaboration around visualizations at a large scale by fostering a social style of data analysis in which visualizations not only serve as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a medium to spur discussion among users. To support this goal, the site includes novel mechanisms for end-user creation of visualizations and asynchronous collaboration around those visualizations. In addition to describing these technologies, we provide a preliminary report on the activity of our users.
authors.affiliation: IBM Research. viegasf@us.ibm.com
authors.forename: Fernanda B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Viegas
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wattenberg
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: van Ham
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kriss
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McKeon
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface