Saturday, September 8, 9:15–10:15 am

by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Many Eyes is a web-based service that lets users collect data,
create visualizations, and share questions and discoveries. By making
this technology available for free to anyone on the internet, we seek
to democratize visualization and to foster a new, open style of data
analysis. At its core, Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual
intelligence—a bet that has paid off in a surprising number of ways,
ranging from citizen activism to game playing to artistic creation.

About Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Fernanda Viégas is a research scientist in IBM’s Visual Communication
Lab where her work focuses on social and collaborative aspects of data
visualization. Previous projects explored e-mail archives, newsgroup
conversations, chat-room interactions, and the editing history of wiki
pages. Her visualization-based artwork has been exhibited in galleries
in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. Viégas holds a Ph.D. from MIT in
Media Arts and Sciences.

Martin Wattenberg, also a research scientist in IBM’s Visual
Communication Lab, focuses on information visualization and its
application to collaborative computing, journalism, and art.
Wattenberg’s visualization artwork has been exhibited in venues
ranging from Ars Electronica to the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.