IBM Many Eyes After One Month 35
ReadWriteWeb writes "IBM's Many Eyes app, a 'shared visualization and discovery' service, has been running for a month now. In this article two of the IBM researchers behind Many Eyes, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda B. Viégas, showcase some of the best visualizations so far. They also talk about the future of 'social data analysis' on the Web.
Wattenberg and Viégas believe that Many Eyes is not just social software, but 'societal-scale software.' They say that Many Eyes represents a break from conventional visualization research. Traditionally, computer scientists concentrate on scaling in terms of data, making visualizations work for bigger and bigger databases. IBM's agenda with Many Eyes is to scale the audience, not the data."
I'm glad the summary was there (Score:5, Funny)
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"IBM Many Eyes After Two Months"
Though I suppose it's better than the "Windows Vista: Has public opinion changed since yesterday?" articles that seem to make the rounds daily here.
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"IBM Many Eyes After Two Months"
Or: Many eyes eye IBM Many Eyes
Or: IBM eyes many Many Eyes implementations
Or: I spy with my Many Eyes, something by IBM
iii... this is too much.
RE: A million eyes attached to half a million idio (Score:1)
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Best way to get people to look... (Score:3, Funny)
"Private and confidential"
and make sure everyone knows about it.
Its from the same school of thought as the big red button.
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Hmmm (Score:2)
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I'm guessing it's going to look like Walt Disney threw up in Technicolor(TM) all over the floor.
Really? I'd figure it'd be more akin to Ted Turner funded colorization of old black and white Popeye cartoons.
Which is, of course, a polite way of saying "like shit".
Wordstar vs Many Eyes (Score:2, Interesting)
What a coincidence (Score:5, Informative)
In case anyone is curious - Google is also into the data-visualization market. The Gap Minder is now avaible directly as an online Google App: Link to GapMinder [google.com]
Is there a surging market here we haven't seen yet?
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Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The queen is their slave.
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Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Comparison of Swivel and Many Eyes (Score:4, Interesting)
Swivel (Score:2, Informative)
Too many demands on eyes (Score:5, Insightful)
Too many people are trying to make others do work for them for free. There's only so much attention to go around. And we're running out.
Wikipedia made people think this could work, but Wikipedia today is mostly cruft. Most of the good articles were added when Wikipedia was a tenth the size it is now. What's coming in now [wikipedia.org] is mostly dreck. Existing articles suffer from ongoing churn, as people make marginal edits and others revert them, without much real progress. Jimbo got out at the peak of the bubble.
Then there are all those "rating sites". Those suffer from a scaling problem - rating only works when the number of raters is large compared to the number of things to be rated. Otherwise, stuff gets rated up by people promoting it.
What we need is more automation, not more eyeballs.
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"Too many people are trying to make others do work for them for free."
Really? How so? How many is too many? Perhaps you think too many people are willing to 'work', as you call it, for free?
There's only so much attention to go around. And we're running out.
Now we're running out of attention. Are you sure? Better get back to doing what we used to do and watch tv then so, before this silly attention-stealing, intarweb came along then so.
Most of the good articles were added when Wikipedia was a tenth the size it is now. What's coming in now is mostly dreck. Existing articles suffer from ongoing churn, as people make marginal edits and others revert them, without much real progress.
Well all its "good articles" (the articles that interest most) are finished. Wikipedia never becomes finished because at all times it's a snapshot of how society and culture see
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I could not agree more. More specifically, there is only so much trained attention to go around. In the case of Many Eyes, interpreting the visualization takes a uni graduates equivalent of training. Not a degree, but similar capacity. Other slashdotters may argue to set the bar lower, but how much lower than HighSchool Grad can it be in educational terms? People boggle at the concept of Compound Interest, these mutli-layered datasets would be hard for them.
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More specifically, there is only so much trained attention to go around. In the case of Many Eyes, interpreting the visualization takes a uni graduates equivalent of training. Not a degree, but similar capacity. Other slashdotters may argue to set the bar lower, but how much lower than High School Grad can it be in educational terms?
Er, yes. This just showed up in Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: "On April 30, 1789, Spencer Shepherd, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office
Twenty Eyes? (Score:3)
not impressive (Score:1)
Apart from the coolness factor I was not very impressed with the examples highlighted on the many eyes page. The point cloud of names within Pride and Prejudice does not appear to offer anything more than a bar graph with some interactivity would, actually it offers less than a bar graph as it is difficult to compare entities. The federal spending example had no way of seeing the line graphs side by side (stacking does not offer much at all unless there is a logical order within the stacks). The morphing b
Swivel vs. Many Eyes (Score:1)