The nytimes.com has a good article on an captivating web site that IBM has produced called many-eyes.com:
Novelties – Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data – NYTimes.com
The site has been getting alot of attention not only because of the ability to effectively visualize data, but also because of the community aspect of it. It’s very smart in alot of ways.
Another smart site that is associated with IBM is wordle.net. Jonathan Feinberg is the author, and although he calls it a “toy”, it has been used extensively already in the US presidential election by people/bloggers analyzing the speeches of candidates.
Speaking of speeches, here is a famous one. Can you guess whose it is?
Anyone with a boring spreadsheet of data or a word document in need of analysis should check them out.
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