A colleague points us to IBM's Many Eyes. An IBM alpha site for shared visualization and discovery. Some nice examples of viz. Wim says you can upload some of your own data. (To use it I had to upload a new version of the Java Plugin, not sure if this usual). From IBM's Visual Communications Lab.
" ... 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 at the 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 ... "
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