Six Years of Many Eyes: A Personal Retrospective by Frank Van Ham.
From the post:
As Many Eyes is being brought out of hibernation. I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on how it came to be and some of the paths the original research team followed.
As the title says, these are my personal views and recollections and they should be taken as such. Some of these I had to piece back from memory, and some from old presentation decks still on my drive.
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Many Eyes v2 launches at the end of March with several new enhancements that will continue the heritage of the site to advance visualization on the web, including:
- A comprehensive site redesign with updated layout and presentation. Plus, new affinity areas to find and navigate visualizations by industry or topic, such as finance, healthcare and risk.
- Addition of the Expert Eyes blog dedicated to helping you learn how to create effective and engaging visualizations that provide maximum insight and tell a story. IBM visualization luminaries and IBM Researchers from the Center for Advanced Visualization will contribute their perspectives regularly.
- Two new visualization types, including a heatmap and view-in-context visualization built on IBM’s Rapidly Adaptive Visualization Engine (RAVE). RAVE, a declarative language based on the Grammar of Graphics, provides a flexible way to create visual mappings by describing what the visualization should look like, without having to write any tedious rendering code.
- New options to share visualizations across the web and on social networks, including popular visual social networks, such as Pinterest.
Discover the newest version of Many Eyes beginning March 25 by visiting www.ibm.com/manyeyes (yes, a new URL as well).
Don’t skip the history as I did above! But I did want to get you excited about the new drop!