It’s been a busy Fall here at the Visual Communication Lab, and we’ve got a few tricks up our sleeve this Halloween. One of them is a new side-project of Many Eyes, called Many Eyes Wikified. Wikified can be thought of as a “remix” of Many Eyes, with some powerful new features that explore a novel way to create and lay out visualization dashboards.
We’re not quite ready to launch Wikified to the public yet, but we’d love to know what you think of it. If you’re interested, you can sign up for the closed beta and get a sneak peek at what we’ve got in store.
categories: announcements
November 7th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Do you have any intention of letting ME scoop up data from a URL? If you can accept tab-delimited values straight into a form on the website, surely it wouldn’t be that hard to parse JSON or a similar format?
I think the ability to visualise information that is regularly updated would be very useful; for example, Google’s elections JSON. (If this was a Google project, I think this would have been one of the first features included.)
November 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
[…] November 7, 2008 in aviation, hacker, intelligence and stupidity As I said here, much as I love ManyEyes, it would be drastically better if it accepted data in the same format (tab-separated columns of values) that it expects to be submitted as a form from a URL, so your visualisation could be based on a source of regularly updated information. […]
November 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Hi Alex. Did you sign up for the Wikified beta yet? You really should.