A while ago I was pleasantly surprised to hear about a project called “Many Eyes” that is hosted (and sponsored?) by IBM alphaware. That project was featured on IT Conversations. Not only the title of the project, but also the goal, reminded me a lot of the article that I got published during the last year of my Software Engineering study. The article was called “So many users, so many perspectives, sharing glasses and throwing remote controls”. It was about visualizing (dynamic) datasets and sharing the visualisations (using the glasses metaphor) with other online users, to aid collaboration between them.
The Many Eyes project does something similar: upload a (static) dataset (a text, or excel sheet, …) and choose a kind of graph to analyse the data. Then you can share this graph with others, publish it, and discuss it online.
The similarities in name and goal struck me…
I wonder if you can hook up some cloud processing on big datasets and then presenting the results with Many Eyes…
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