"Many Eyes is a bet
on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is
to 'democratize' visualization and to enable a new social kind of data
analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.
All of us in CUE's Visual Communication Lab
are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark
insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding
data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the
user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we
have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in
recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and
the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting.
Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about
data.
We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better.
It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football
stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable
amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and
discuss it, we understand it in new ways."
