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What
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Many Eyes with Martin Wattenberg and the VCL team |
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To "democratize"
visualization, and experiment with new collaborative techniques, we
built Many Eyes, a web site where anyone can upload data,
create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. The goal
is to foster a social style of data analysis in which visualizations
serve not only as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a means
to spur discussion and collaboration. The idea for the site came from experiences that Martin Wattenberg and I had in which visualizations had an unexpectedly strong social component. The best way to learn more is to visit the site itself, or follow the links on the right to academic papers. |
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Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale. | |||
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Your Place or Mine? Visualization as a Community Component | ||||
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Harry Potter and the
Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools |
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Communication-Minded
Visualization: A Call to Action |
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Phrase Net with Frank van Ham and Martin Wattenberg |
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Available on
Many Eyes, phrase nets
diagram the relationships between different words used in a text.
The technique displays a graph whose nodes are words and whose edges
indicate that two words are linked by a user-specified relation.
These relations may be defined either at the syntactic or lexical
level; different relations often produce very different perspectives
on the same text. Taken together, these perspectives often provide
an illuminating visual overview of the key concepts and relations in
a document or set of documents.
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Mapping Text with Phrase Nets | |||
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Word Tree with Martin Wattenberg |
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Available on Many Eyes, a word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which it appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases. Both a visualization and information-retrieval technique, word trees are a graphical version of the traditional "keyword-in-context" method, and enables rapid querying and exploration of bodies of text. |
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The Word Tree, an Interactive Visual Concordance | |||
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sense.us with Jeffrey Heer and Martin Wattenberg |
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To explore the
possibilities for asynchronous collaborative visualization, we
designed and implemented sense.us, a prototype web application for
social visual data analysis. The site provides a suite of
visualizations of United States census data over the last 150 years.
With a straightforward bookmarking mechanism, it supports
collaboration with four features: doubly-linked discussions,
graphical annotations, saved bookmark trails, and social navigation
via comment listings. For more information about the system, please visit the sense.us project page. |
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Voyagers and Voyeurs:
Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization
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