Many eyes @Vgsom

Vinod Gupta School of ManagementIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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Ramya Krishna P 10BM60056

Soujanya Kodati 10BM60039

Vinod Gupta School of ManagementIIT Kharagpur

IBM’s MANY EYES Click here for Tutorial

MANY EYESAgenda

• Many Eyes

• Visualizations

•Creating your own visualization

• Data sets

• Visualization

• Pros and Cons

MANY EYES

• Visualization tool – backed by IBM

• Generic data visualization techniques adapted to

heterogeneous data sources

• More than 100,000 data visualizations and 270,000 data

sets

• Visual representation of large amounts of data

• Collaborative platform for sharing knowledge

• Easy to use, interactive, time saving

• Many Eyes in 60 seconds

MANY EYES

VisualizationsPurpose Visualization type

Relationships among data points Scatter plot, Matrix chart, network diagram

Comparing a set of values Bar chart, Histogram, Bubble chart

Tracking rises and falls over time Line graph, Stack graph

See the parts of a whole Pie chart, Tree map

Analyzing text Word tree, Tag cloud, Phrase net, Word Cloud generator

See the world World map

MANY EYESCreating your own

visualizations• Many Eyes is an online tool available at http://www-958.ibm.com

• Create a login account

• Now, you can create a visualization in three easy steps

• Demo

Choose a data set

Choose a

visualization

Customize and

publish

MANY EYESChoosing a data set

• Go to ‘upload a data set’ under ‘Participate’ tab• Prepare your data

• Paste the data

• Check for correctness

• Describe the data

• Disclaimer : anything you upload will be visible to everyone on the

internet!

MANY EYESDot your ‘i’s, Cross your ‘t’s

Fruit Cost

Apple $ 1.00

Banana $ 1.40

Fruit Cost ($)

Apple $ 1.00

Banana $ 1.40

Cheese Bread

Cost($) Calories Cost($) Calories

3.24 200 1.29 120

3.31 200 1.91 130

Cheese:Cost($)

Cheese:Calorie

Bread:Cost($)

Bread:Calorie

3.24 200 1.29 120

3.31 200 1.91 130

MANY EYESChoose a visualization

MANY EYESChoose a visualization

MANY EYES

MANY EYES

MANY EYESCustomize and publish!!

• Customize your visualizations based upon

various attributes in the data set.

• Publish your visualization

• Get rated for your visualization and data set

MANY EYESPros and cons

Pros• Huge variety of visualizations• Explore others’ data sets and

visualizations• Allows analysis of complex data• Community based • Just needs a java-enabled

browser• No softwares to download, no

softwares to install• To top it all, it is FREE!

Cons

• Eats up your memory

• Might crash your browser

• Garbage In, Garbage Out!

MANY EYES