Topic hubs* are starting to sizzle on Many Eyes. Users have created dozens of hubs, ranging from music and social networks, to global warming and official OECD data.

User Yevgeny created the Babies topic hub “for anyone trying to see if there is a relationship between the number of births and the lunar cycle…and other such minutia.” Although we have no lunar cycle data yet, users have already started visualizing baby name trends in the Netherlands, Ireland, and Germany. Know of baby name data from other countries? Make sure to contribute to the Babies topic hub!

Ireland aficionado user colm has created the Irish Life hub “to encourage discussions & visualisations of various aspects of Irish life. Any kind of content is welcome - sociological, economical, ecological etc.” The hub is seeing a lot of activity and already counts on a collection of 21 visualizations that span a variety of Irish themes from immigration and general elections to Rugby and James Joyce’s books.

Don’t see a topic hub that interests you? Create your own! Topic hubs are a great way to engage the Many Eyes community into thinking about an issue that is dear to you.

* topic hubs are mini “portal pages” to collect data sets and visualizations on a particular theme.