March 29, 2008 – 10:23 pm

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then data visualization is worth a whole library of scientific papers? IBM’s Many Eyes website provides an online tool to allow you to view data in wonderful methods.

IBM’s website, Many Eyes, provides a way for visitors to visualize existing datasets and also allow uploads of your own datasets to be crunched into graphs in various formats.

Additionally, you have the ability on the website to comment and provide your own interpretations, thus providing a collective knowledge of the raw data thats being presented.

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. – many eyes

So sign on, view data, crunch away. Who knows, you may be a dormant John Nash. (hopefully without that whole ‘breaking down into madness’ part)

Interesting Graphs: