What Many Eyes Knows Lessons in collaborative visualization Irene Greif IBM Fellow Center for Social Software IBM Research

There is a pent up desire to analyze All that’s needed is a simple toolset

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What’s more, once given the tools… … people will find surprising uses

1 User “crossway” uploads co-occurrence data for biblical figures to Many Eyes 2 Crossway uses the network diagram tool to create a graph visualization 3 Crossway writes about the visualization on ESV blog 4 Many blogs (almost 100 by Google’s count) write about crossway’s blog entry. 5 One of these bloggers posts new data to Many Eyes—and, of course, blogs about the results. The long list of responses/trackbacks on the ESV blog entry: a discussion about the visualization and analysis. Surprising Domain, Typical Pattern

Finally… … words rule!

Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech

Obama vs. McCain (“promise” vs. “fight”)

Former attorney general Gonzales

What IBM Research knows now: Many Eyes is an example of Venture Research Scalable real world deployments let research keep up with wisdom of crowds The central theme of IBM’s Center for Social Software