Many Eyes – Power of Human Visual Intelligence to Find Patterns
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Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Their goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to their visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project. Everyone 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 they have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in recent years, they 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. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.