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Many Eyes: Turning data into pictures

December 4, 2008 – 11:49 am

Data is a key part of many stories. IBM’s Many Eyes is a free online library of tools that give you options for visually exploring all kinds of data — even for analyzing text documents. It also lets you share and embed your visualizations.
You can upload your dataset to Many Eyes and apply various visualization [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in analysis, data, tools, video | Comments (2)

Some REALLY cool news maps

March 13, 2008 – 9:57 am

National Geographic

Not surprisingly, National Geographic does an amazing job of using Google Earth to tell compelling stories and get more mileage out of its articles, photos, and other content.

Yesterday I went on a major learning/exploration binge online. I love days like that, when the information and connections all seem to be flowing. Anyway, thanks to [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in journalism, mapping | Comments (0)