Visualizations
Many Eyes is a site by the Collaborative User Experience group at IBM Research. They are hosting visualizations of user submitted data and allowing the online community to comment. I read about it first on another cool site, Read/Write Web.
There are many different topics and datasets. Certainly some seem more reliable than others. The Proto-/Indo-European Language Tree visualization seems to imply less relation between Danish and Swedish than British English and New World English. I think they should recheck their calculations. Snoop Dogg and Queen Elizabeth are not speaking the same language, citizens of Göteberg and Køpenhavn pretty much are.
Lots to look at there, here are a few I liked:
- Graph of Spoken Languages
- Who pays the most for advertizing and who’s expanding advertising fastest
- A Reason to Avoid Alaska
On a Mac, I had to use Safari to get the site to work.
For more graphing smiles: graphs of the not so obvious
technology posted by: dan @ 12 Mar 2007 22:57