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Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.
All of us in CUE's Visual Communication Lab are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting. Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data.
We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.
A bit of history
In 2003, Fernanda created a program to visualize an individual's email archives. Given the personal nature of email, when she ran a study on the visualization she took great pains to ensure that each person's visualization would be completely private. But to her surprise, many of the study participants immediately sought out ways to share the images, mailing screenshots around or just calling friends over to see the program in action. This experiment revealed the intensely social side of visualizations, where discussion and storytelling are just as important as data analysis.
The next year, Martin wrote a program to visualize historical baby name popularity. It became a minor internet fad, but what was most interesting was the discussions that it sparked. In venues ranging from blogs to a forum on a well-known political magazine, thousands of people used the visualization as a starting point for conversations that were sometimes playful, sometimes intensely analytical. Each brought a distinctive perspective to the data, from a knowledge of political history to a simple search for their own name.
Inspired by these experiences, the Visual Communication Lab embarked on a project to encourage sharing and conversation around visualizations. We believe that visualizations gain power when multiple people use them to communicate, and that communication gains power when multiple people can visualize and explore information together. We want to democratize visualization, enabling anyone on the internet to publish powerful interactive visualizations and start their own data conversations. Many Eyes is designed to bring that power to you.
I discovered these yesterday on display at IBM Bedfont (http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/locations/bedfont.html). I can't help but smile :)
The Incoming Buying Mission (IBM) in conjunction with MIHAS 2014 is organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) on 8 April 2014. During the programme, participants will partake in one-to-one Business Meetings between buyers and sellers in MATRADE building. On the second day of the programme, the Special Session for foreign buyers will meet MIHAS exhibitors at the exhibition.
The Incoming Buying Mission (IBM) in conjunction with MIHAS 2014 is organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) on 8 April 2014. During the programme, participants will partake in one-to-one Business Meetings between buyers and sellers in MATRADE building. On the second day of the programme, the Special Session for foreign buyers will meet MIHAS exhibitors at the exhibition.
The Incoming Buying Mission (IBM) in conjunction with MIHAS 2014 is organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) on 8 April 2014. During the programme, participants will partake in one-to-one Business Meetings between buyers and sellers in MATRADE building. On the second day of the programme, the Special Session for foreign buyers will meet MIHAS exhibitors at the exhibition.
The Incoming Buying Mission (IBM) in conjunction with MIHAS 2014 is organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) on 8 April 2014. During the programme, participants will partake in one-to-one Business Meetings between buyers and sellers in MATRADE building. On the second day of the programme, the Special Session for foreign buyers will meet MIHAS exhibitors at the exhibition.
IBM held a reception at Metrazur Restaurant in Grand Central Station, New York City to launch a new initiative -- to build a relationship with ex-IBMers as an ex-alumni resource and enable them to form a network themselves.
The Incoming Buying Mission (IBM) in conjunction with MIHAS 2014 is organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) on 8 April 2014. During the programme, participants will partake in one-to-one Business Meetings between buyers and sellers in MATRADE building. On the second day of the programme, the Special Session for foreign buyers will meet MIHAS exhibitors at the exhibition.
My IBM X41 Laptop. It was supposedly the last X-series designed by IBM. I bought it in 2005 but I rarely use it anymore. In the background is my vintage ThinkPad 701CS "butterfly" slightly visible.
IBM T42 CENTRINO
2.0 GHZ CENTRINO
512 MB RAM
80 GB HARD DISK
15" DISPLAY
LAN, MODEM, WIFI
10 Mints BATTERY BACK UP
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I would assume that that's a Guest Pass rather than a permie staff one, but either way, we love him.
Back in 1982 when I took this picture I was working at Moore-o-matic, a garage door operator manufacturing company located in Waupaca, WI. I was running the paint departmaent when an opening came up for a second shift computer operator. I enjoyed the job and learned all I could about the computers. We had all own software written in COBOL. I took tech school COBOL and accounting classes. Eventually, I ended up as operator, programmer and data department manager all in one. I had one key punch operator.
All good things must come to an end. The company management changed and the computers became seriously outdated. Chamberlain bought out Moore-o-matic and closed the Waupaca factory in favor of one in Mexico.
Today, the once busy factory has become a foundry warehouse. Ironically, I am restoring the old Soo Line railroad depot and the freight house that sat abandoned across from Moore-o-matic. Now the Moore-o-matic factory is the deteriorating old structure.
This what IBM CEs (Customer Engineers) use as timesheets and parts requests before IBM deploy their "bricks" back in 1984.
The Incoming Buying Mission (IBM) in conjunction with MIHAS 2014 is organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) on 8 April 2014. During the programme, participants will partake in one-to-one Business Meetings between buyers and sellers in MATRADE building. On the second day of the programme, the Special Session for foreign buyers will meet MIHAS exhibitors at the exhibition.