Data Visualization at Many-Eyes.com
Since January 2007, IBM's Visual Communication Lab, which is part of the company's Collaborative User Experience research group, has offered public access to many-eyes.com, a site that makes it easy to convert data sets into meaningful visualizations. The visualization types currently offered include:Maps
World map (example)
Country maps (example)
Trends
Line graph (example
Stack graph (example)
Stack graph for categories (example)
Comparisons
Bar chart (example)
Block histogram (example)
Bubble chart (example)
Matrix chart (example)
Relationships
Scatterplot (example)
Network diagram (example)
Parts of a whole
Pie chart (example)
Treemap (example)
Change treemap (description)
High-frequency words in a text
Tag cloud (example)
Word tree (example)
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda B. Viégas of the Collaborative User Experience research group, offer a helpful discussion of Many Eyes and of its usefulness in collaborative problem-solving in a short article in the May 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review.
Labels: Business acumen, Collaboration, Communication, Documentation, Usability
posted by Karen Nelson @ 11:23 PM
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