Fm this is the collaboration site of fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg. Fernanda and martin have been collaborators for many years, and have worked on some of the bestknown visualization projects. Ultimately, the data visualization team, responsible for such internet classics as namevoyager and many eyes, decided to turn down the grant. Many eyes, developed in part by fernanda viegas, extend this with conceptions of collective intelligence 3. Wattenberg suggested that an ideal visualization should not only communicate clearly, but stimulate viewer engagement and attention. Fernanda viegas, created many eyes, a collaborative site. Marnanda are trailblazers here, as usual, and i think many others will follow their lead. Interactive stack graph file exchange matlab central. To be sure, many eyes is not the first, or even the most. We invent new ways for people to think and talk about data. Each entity with its triplet v 1, v 2, v 3 of associated data is plotted as a disk that expresses two of the v i values through the disks xy location and the third through its size.
And that insight inspired her and wattenberg to create many eyes, in 2007. Aug 26, 2010 cohen worked with programmers fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg who previously worked on many eyes and are now at. Their research has helped shape the field, and the systems theyve built are used daily by millions of people. Stack graph object for interactive data visualization base on the many eyes version. Wattenberg created a website in 2007 called many eyes. Mauro rebelo ufrjbrasil introduces many eyes the ibm software developed to help visualize huge amount of data. Fernanda viegas, cofounder of flowing media fast company. Visual interpretations conference, and have some conference news for you. From hands to eyes visual artists fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg see, and hear, the beauty in the human body.
Two of the researchers who led the many eyes effort at ibm, fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg, later left to form their own company and then. Many eyes was developed by martin wattenberg and fernanda viegas, researchers at ibms visual communication lab, in cambridge, ma. Visual business intelligence many eyes can be better than two. I feel the many eyes many bills comparison is an apples to oranges one unless there are some actual criteria, other than a vague notion of. A tiny crosssection of the visualizations users created by matching their own data with our visualization components. Im also interested in weaving societal expectations and values into the design and evaluation of ai. As technologists we ask, can visualization help people think collectively. Many eyes fernanda viegas martin wattenberg crime rates in local communities. There he introduced many innovative and beautiful data visualizations for various kinds of data. Apr 11, 2007 many eyes was developed by martin wattenberg and fernanda viegas, researchers at ibms visual communication lab, in cambridge, ma. Google and an ibm website called many eyes let people upload their data to display in novel ways and share with others.
Viegas, martin wattenberg, frank van ham, jesse kriss, matt mckeon. Many eyesinternetscale collaborative visualization website sunsetted. This approach supports the synthesis of visualizations across domains by multiple users, each. Data integration is a precursor to data analysis, and data analysis is closely linked to data visualization and data. He has guided stumbleupons design and development since 2001, from inception.
Data visualization is closely related to information graphics, information visualization, scientific visualization, exploratory data analysis and statistical graphics. Ibm will close its many eyes collaborative data visualization service on. Ibm to shutter dataviz pioneer many eyes computerworld. They launched many eyes at ibm in 2007, and worked not only on building features for the site, but also understanding how users ended up telling their stories through data using the service. Their landmark system many eyes was the first to put powerful visualization tools in the hands of a general audience. Similar pursuits are information visualization, data visualization, statistical graphics, information design, or information architecture. Augmenting human and machine intelligence with data. Fernanda bertini viegas born 1971 is a brazilian scientist and designer, whose work focuses. She is one of the founders of ibms experimental many eyes website, created in 2007, which seeks to make visualization technology accessible to the public. Garrett is responsible for stumbleupons product design and strategy. If research organizations and journals linked the raw data behind papers to social software tools such as swivel and many eyes, he argues, it. Fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg touted version 0. Fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg are pioneers in data visualization and analytics. The obama administration has acted selection from open government book.
Many eyes supports the construction of a wide variety of visualization paradigms resulting from one or more sets of data. It is an experiment created by the visual communication lab. The brainiacs fernanda viegas cofounder flowing media as an undergrad, fernanda viegas dropped out twice and studied chemical engineering, linguistics, and education on two continents, before. Our annual guide to the businesses that matter the most. We have updated our list of keynote speakers and would like to remind you to register by april 30. If research organizations and journals linked the raw data behind papers to social software tools such as swivel and many eyes, he argues, it would have considerable value to the scientific. As an undergrad, fernanda viegas dropped out twice and studied.
In addition to broad uptake from individuals, the technology from many eyes has been used by nonprofits and news outlets such as the new york times visualization lab. Acm conference on computerhuman interaction chi, 2004. Fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg are pioneers in data visualization and. They should think about making that clear up front. My latest project at vcl is many eyes, a public web site where anyone can upload data, visualize it, and discuss their visualizations. Schedule a oneonone consultation with experts who have worked with thousands of clients to build winning data, analytics and ai strategies. Impressive data visualization tool to be released as open. And indeed the software can import a table of data. Wattenberg left and viegas right developed manyeyes, a precursor to several generations of cognos and business intelligence services. Feb 05, 2017 augmenting human and machine intelligence with data visualization. A bubble chart is a type of chart that displays three dimensions of data. Allaire is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has created a wide variety of products including coldfusion, open live writer, lose it. A site for visualization at internet scale, fernanda b.
We had to think very hard about this, viegas told me. Its a challenging field as well, of course, but seems like a very promising area. Parc forum garrett camp stumbleupon, 20071129 youtube. Augmenting human and machine intelligence with data visualization. Mar 23, 2010 a conversation with jeff heer, martin wattenberg, and fernanda viegas sharing visualization with the world. Their vision of democratizing visualization has empowered journalists, businesspeople, and scientists to tell stories with data. Ieee symposium on information visualization, 2007 luscious. Viegas is one of the founders of ibms experimental many eyes website, created in 2007, which seeks to make. Ibms many eyes app after one month guest author 1 05 mar 2007 web this is a guest post written by two of the researchers behind ibms many eyes app, martin. Science and technology general software development.
The roles of creative synthesis in innovation abstract. They tangentially mention this in the podcast when the two principal researchers at many eyes discuss getting a request to place a visualization up on a website. Watson research center as part of the visual communication lab, and created many eyes, a free public site that allows anyone to create a visualization from a dataset. Many eyes is a web site that provides collaborative visualization services, allowing users to upload data sets, visualize them, and comment on. Fb viegas, m wattenberg, f van ham, j kriss, m mckeon. A visualization of thousands of wikipedia edits that were made by a single software bot. Data is measured, collected and reported, and analyzed, whereupon it can be visualized using graphs, images or other analysis tools. Ibm researchers fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg are the creators of many eyes. Ibm watson openscale helps solve ais black box problem. Were wired to make hypotheses from visual patterns, points out fernanda viegas, a research scientist and computational designer who, with martin wattenberg, started many eyes, a website sponsored by both the new york times and ibm. Data visualization has historically been accessible only to the elite in. Molecular graphics product visualization scientific visualization software visualization technical drawing.
Her field of work has been dubbed data visualization, and one of her most important projects was developing the website many eyes. Normally when you win a knight news challenge grant, theres not much of a question about what to do. An american scientist and artist known for his work with data visualization, he along with fernanda viegas, worked at the cambridge location of ibms thomas j. Many eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Many eyes doesnt already do everything you might find useful while exploring data and it certainly isnt a replacement for robust commercial visual analysis software, but even as a free web service, it already gives you better visualization functionality than most business intelligence software products. Openvis conf is a twoday, single track conference centered around the practice of visualizing data on the web join us to learn about data visualization, information design, data analysis and implementation using the best open web technology. The vcl today is not the same group of people who worked on many eyes which didnt include adam in case there was still some confusion about that and martin and fernanda have left ibm. At that point we begin to work in software code, creating a series of digital. My work in machine learning with martin wattenberg, my longtime collaborator, focuses on improving humanai interaction with a broader agenda of democratizing ai technology.
Some data sets are best represented as a moving image. Our goal is to democratize visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis all of us at the visual communication lab are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark insight. It gives enterprises visibility into how ai is built and which data attributes are used, and measures and adapts to outcomes from ai across its lifecycle. Datavisualization duo turns down knight funding over open. A conversation with jeff heer, martin wattenberg, and. Many eyes is available as a service on ibms alphaworks services website, so it is. As an undergrad, fernanda viegas dropped out twice and studied chemical engineering, linguistics, and education on two continents, before finally finishing with a degree in graphic design. Wattenberg history flow, many eyes, treemap algorithms, social data analysis notable awards gold award id magazine interactive design 1999, creative capital grantee 2006, tr100 2003 martin m wattenberg b 1970 is an american scientist and artist known for his work with data visualization along.
But for fernanda viegas and martin wattenberg of flowing media, winning in the 2010 competition prompted a tough decision. How to use timeflow to manage, analyze chronological data. Our many eyes system was the first that allowed nonexpert users to upload data and create cuttingedge interactive visualizations online without having to code. Visualization provides one means of combating information overload, as a welldesigned visual encoding can supplant cognitive calculations with simpler perceptual inferences and improve comprehension, memory, and decision making. The second issue is naturally enough, given the nature of the open data commons, the rights associated with the data. My research focuses on the collaborative, social, and artistic aspects of information visualization. Jun 14, 2017 even many of the people working in the field dont have good intuitions for how their systems work, and they need tools to inspect what theyre doing, debug, etc.
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