ManyEyes: a Site for Visualization at Internet Scale

  • Authors:
  • Fernanda B. Viegas;Martin Wattenberg;Frank van Ham;Jesse Kriss;Matt McKeon

  • Affiliations:
  • IEEE Computer Society;-;IEEE Computer Society;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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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.