Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data

Data can be organized many ways on Many Eyes. Above is a chart of Olympic medals.

• PEOPLE share their videos on YouTube and their photos at Flickr. Now they can share more technical types of displays: graphs, charts and other visuals they create to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables or text.

  
  

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  Above shows occurrences of names in the New Testament.

  At an experimental Web site, Many Eyes, (www.many-eyes.com), users can upload the data they want to visualize, then try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays. These might range from maps of relationships in the New Testament to a display of the comparative frequency of words used in speeches by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

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