Jeff Heer reports that IBM has released their Many Eyes platform for browser-based data analysis. I have already written about Swivel, and there is another similar system called Data 360. However, the Many Eyes seems to be the most impressive of all, with very clean visualizations and numerous types of graphs, including, for example, social networks and maps.
HI, Aleks…Many Eyes is definitely an amazing site in terms of visualization. Our site, Data360, which you mentioned in your blog, was launched in October of 2006 and is a collaborative trend tracking website, offering both public and private platforms where users can track and collaborate on data. See http://www.data360.org. There's been a fair amount of traffic to our site because of your link and I'd be happy to give anyone who would like a tour of the site through gotomeeting. We know our site can appear complicated and we are working on simplifying it. We think Data360 offers a utilitarian functionality for anyone wanting to present a story involving numerous graphs. Data360 also has a lot of really interesting information already on the site. We have a capability to do specific calculations between datasets, as well as to calculate growth rates between data points of the same time-series dataset. Graphs can be specified and fine tuned along numerous attributes, such as font size of axes, legends and titles. We also offer rich presentation capabilities, including pdf report generation, with user uploaded pdfs, as well as 1 to 6 graphs on the same page. We are just rolling out a new functionality we call ADF, for automatic data feed, which will allow users to have data sets from certain sources to automatically be updated – forever. Our team is comprised of former Chief Financial Officers who have been thinking about data reporting for years; we wanted to build a product that would let anyone track and repeatedly report, in a compelling manner, on any subject of interest to them.
We would be grateful for your review of our site.
Thanks,
Tom Paper