ManyEyes: a site for visualization at internet scale.
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.
Viegas
Fernanda B
FB
IBM Research. viegasf@us.ibm.com
Wattenberg
Martin
M
van Ham
Frank
F
Kriss
Jesse
J
McKeon
Matt
M
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