What happens when just about anyone has access to sophisticated visualization tools?
		Many Eyes with Martin Wattenberg and the VCL team
		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.			Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale.
					Your Place or Mine? Visualization as a Community Component
					Harry Potter and the Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools
					Communication-Minded Visualization: A Call to Action
		sense.us with Jeffrey Heer and Martin Wattenberg
		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.			Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization