© IBM Corporation, 2009 | Center for Social Software 1 Many Eyes: Drawing Crowds to Open Data Irene...

© IBM Corporation, 2009 | Center for Social Software1

Many Eyes:Drawing Crowds to Open Data

Irene GreifIBM FellowDirector, Collaborative User Experience and Center for Social Software

October 19, 2009

© IBM Corporation, 2009 | Center for Social Software

Center for Social Software

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•Focal point of Venture Research: large scale deployments, experimenting with viral adoption, business and social impacts


There is a pent up desire to analyze, see another point

of view, discuss …

All that’s needed is a simple toolset


Stack graph Line graph Bar chart Scatterplot

US Map World map Block histogram Bubble chart

Pie chart Treemap (2 types) Stack graph for categories Network diagram

Visualization techniques


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… people will find surprising uses


1 User “crossway” uploads co-occurrence

data for biblical figures to Many Eyes

2 Crossway uses the network diagram

tool to create a graph visualization

3 Crossway writes about the

visualization on ESV blog

4 Many blogs (almost 100 by Google’s count)

write about crossway’s blog entry.

5 One of these bloggers posts new data to

Many Eyes—and, of course, blogs about the results.

The long list of responses/trackbacks on the ESV blog entry: a discussion about the visualization and analysis.

Surprising Domain, Typical Pattern


…there’s a lot of interest in words


Obama vs. McCain (“promise” vs. “fight”)


Former attorney general Gonzales


And of course Wordles

Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech


Irene Greif

March

http://wordle.net


Words and government transparency


The Guardian 22,857 people reviewed 197,018 pages ProPublica

Public Engagement


President Barack Obama’s Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government


Government should be transparent.

Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and

decisions online and readily available to the public.

Government should be transparent.

Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and

decisions online and readily available to the public.

Government should be participatory.

Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective

expertise and information.

Government should be participatory.

Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective

expertise and information.

Government should be collaborative.

Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the

private sector.

Government should be collaborative.

Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the

private sector.


Visualization for Open Data Analysis

With the right tools, visualization becomes a powerful medium to help people discuss data, share insights, and contribute experience …

A key to opening government to broader participation …


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