Many Eyes Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/many-eyes/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Thu, 24 May 2007 11:42:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png Many Eyes Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/many-eyes/ 32 32 Many Eyes – Data Visualisation https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/24/many-eyes-data-visualisation/ Thu, 24 May 2007 11:42:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2103 As an update to the previous post on Many Eyes – it is simple to upload your own data and choose a variety of visualisation techniques. For example we illustrate...

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]]> As an update to the previous post on Many Eyes – it is simple to upload your own data and choose a variety of visualisation techniques.

For example we illustrate below the Tag Cloud for this blogs posts over the last week:

Oblivion has figured strongly – due to the tutorial – it creates an interesting view of both the blog and the topics we cover. You can view the Tag Cloud direct from the Many Eyes site.

We will be covering more Many Eyes visualisations in the coming weeks…

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]]> Shared Data and 2D Visualisation – Many Eyes https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/24/shared-data-and-2d-visualisation-many/ Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2104 With the focus of this blog on the third dimension it is sometimes easy to forget how powerful two dimensional visualisation can be. The sticking point to social scientists is...

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]]> With the focus of this blog on the third dimension it is sometimes easy to forget how powerful two dimensional visualisation can be. The sticking point to social scientists is often the difficulty involved in making clear and understandable visualisations – at which point Many Eyes comes to hand a fantastic site where users openly share data and visualise.

The diagram below represents a Topographic View of the London Underground:


A vector based version can be viewed on the Many Eyes site which you can either comment on, manipulate or more importantly download the raw data and make your own visualisation.

Sometimes you just stumble on a great site and Many Eyes is definatly one of those times.

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