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data collection and visualization can be unlimited, and there are many
possibilities to recall individual subjectivity. I had an opportunity to visit
both InfoVis07 and InfoVis08 and found certain differences across the
two conferences. At InfoVis08, there was more research about socialrelated
information visualizations than scientific visualizations, as well as
more information on perception, design, and interaction issues. Beyond
scientific visualization, information visualization, particularly social
related data sets, has begun to draw attention.
The democratization of information gives the public access to more
data. For example, during and after the U.S. election, people could track
the amount of donations to the candidates and the voting rate at almost
real time. In addition, the public can generate information themselves and
share it. Many Eyes, a public web site “where users may upload data, create
interactive visualizations, and carry on discussion” 39 is an example to
explain data collecting/sharing platform operated by the public.
Following is a description about the webpage:
[T]he goal of the site is to support collaboration around visualizations at a large
scale by fostering a social style of data analysis in which visualizations not only
serve as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a medium to spur discussion
among users. 40
Figure 25. Many Eyes: “ a cleverly used stacked graph that shows relative differences in
the type of postings on two online link aggregators, a world map showing the average
account balance per capita, a bubble chart showing the size of the endowments of
different US universities, and a tag cloud showing two word occurrences in the work of
Yeats” 41
39
Viégas, Fernanda and B. Martin Wattenberg., al.,”Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at
Internet Scale’, 2007, p1121
40
Ibid. , p1121
41
Ibid. , p1124
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