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2010

How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools
Jonathan Stray
Nieman Journalism Lab. August 5th, 2010.

Communication, Motivation and Engagement
Joan DiMicco
Computer Science Department, Northeasern University, August 5, 2010.

Communication, Motivation and Engagement
Joan DiMicco
Lincoln Lab, MIT, July 29, 2010.

IBM Launches "Many Bills" Legislation Browser
Mathew Ingram
Gigaom. April 19, 2010.

Infographic of the Day: How Congress Almost Awarded Tiger Woods for "Grace and Dignity"
Cliff Kuang
Fast Company. April 09, 2010.

The Visual Display of Legislative Information
Nancy Scola
techPresident - Personal Democracy Forum. April 07, 2010.

IBM introduces Many Bills
Kerry Mitchell
The Sunlight Foundation. April 06, 2010.

IBM Many Bills: Visualizing the 2009 U.S. Congressional Legislation
Information Aesthetics. April 06, 2010.

2009

Transparent Text Symposium
Center for Social Software. September 21st-22nd, 2009. Cambridge MA.

The 21 Heroes of Data Visualization
Article by Maria Popova. Business Week; published August 12, 2009.

From Analysis to Creativity in Data Visualization
Irene Ros
Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge , Washington, D.C., July 15-16, 2009

Transforming Data Access Through Public Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, June 29, 2009

The Irresistible Appeal of Info Porn: How did data get so sexy?
Cliff Kuang
Print Magazine, June 2009.

Visualizing Text
Martin Wattenberg
English Department, Stanford University, May 4, 2009.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Martin Wattenberg
Mathematics Dept., United States Military Academy, West Point, April 15, 2009.

Social Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
CS 171, Harvard University, April 13, 2009.

Visualization for Communication and Discovery
Matt McKeon
American Institute of Physics, 26 March, 2009.

Trees and Networks
Frank van Ham
CS 171, Harvard University, Mar. 18, 2009.

A Public Dialogue about Visual Perception and New Media
Martin Wattenberg and Donald Hoffman
Center for Transformative Scholarship, University of Southern California, Mar. 6, 2009.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Martin Wattenberg
UCLA Dept. of Statistics, Mar. 5, 2009.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis and Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Feb. 19, 2009.

From Wikipedia to Visualization, and Back
Martin Wattenberg
Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Jan. 26, 2009.

2008

He creates ways of seeing information
Boston Globe, Dec. 12, 2008.

Shakespeare, God and Lonely Hearts
Jesse Kriss
STM Innovations Seminar (International Association of Scientific, Medical, and Technical Publishers), London. December 5, 2008.

Well-Rounded Man
Men's Health, Dec. 2008, p. 96.

Visualizing Song and Story
Martin Wattenberg.
Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, Nov. 6, 2008.

Seeing Words
Martin Wattenberg.
Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, Nov. 3, 2008.

Programas facilitam a leigos criaçâo de gráficos
Folha de Sao Paulo, Nov. 1, 2008.

Many Eyes é criaçâo de brasileira
Folha de Sao Paulo, Nov. 1, 2008.

Step Inside Design
Nov/Dec 2008, "See Deeper," by Jude Stewart, p. 96.

Seeing Words
Martin Wattenberg.
Ideas Boston Conference, Boston, Oct. 30.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Martin Wattenberg.
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, Sept. 25.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis and Visualization
Martin Wattenberg.
ASIDIC annual meeting, Salem Mass., Sept. 15, 2008.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis and Visualization
Martin Wattenberg.
Joint Statistical Meetings 2008, Denver, Aug. 6.

Many Eyes: Visualization in the hands of the people
Matt McKeon.
IxDA nanoConf, 26 June, 2008.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Pittsburgh, June 16-20 2008.

In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed Fernanda Viégas.
Fresh Dialogue 24 , AIGA/NY, The New York Times Building, May 23 2008.

Visualization at an Internet Scale Matt McKeon.
Boston BarCamp, 17 May, 2008.

The Design Issue: Seeing is Believing.
Article by Lee Billings.
Seed Magazine ; published April 2008.

Visualization in the Public Sphere, or: I Can See My House From Here
Martin Wattenberg.
Visualization Day , City College of New York, April 30 2008

  Social Visualization
Martin Wattenberg.
CS171 , Harvard University, April 23 2008.

Collaborative Visualization : IBM's Many Eyes project [ video ]
Frank van Ham.
See #3 conference, Wiesbaden, Germany. April 19 2008. 

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
HCI Seminar, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 13 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization [ video ]
Fernanda Viégas.
Arts, Media and Engineering , Arizona State University, March 6 2008.

Trees and Networks
Frank van Ham.
CS171 , Harvard University, March 5 2008.

Many Eyes: Online Collaborative Data Visualization
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.
Quantitative Reasoning 46 : The Visual Display of Information: The Art of Numbers , Harvard University, February 26 2008.

Data is Beautiful: Looking at Markets in New Ways
Martin Wattenberg
O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference , New York City, February 7 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization [ video ]
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. 
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design , Stanford University, February 1, 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization [ video ]
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. 
PARC Forum: Going Beyond Web 2.0 , PARC, January 31, 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. 
HCI Special Talk, University of California, Berkeley, January 30, 2008.

2007

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.
Initiative in Innovative Computing , Harvard University, December 5 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas
MHCI Seminar , University of Madeira , Portugal. November 16 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy.
Martin Wattenberg
ICCA/ACM/IEEE meeting, MIT, November 15 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas
Visualizar Symposium , Medialab Prado , Madrid - November 12 & 13 2007

Visualizing and Analysing Social Networks
Fernanda Viégas Social Network/ing Week, University of Toronto, November 2 2007.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Google, October 26 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), October 25 2007.

Visual Text Analysis by Lay Users: The Case of "Many Eyes"
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval , MIT October 23 2007

Many Eyes Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, Applied Statistics Workshop , October 10 2007.

Many Eyes Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
IDEA 2007 , New York City, October 4-5 2007.

Future of Visualization and Health
Martin Wattenberg
Future of Health Technology Summit , MIT, September 24.

Visualização de informações: o designer e um universo de dados
Fernanda Viégas
Escola Superior de Design Industrial (ESDI), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - September 11 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - September 10 2007.

Visual Thinking at a Global Scale: The Story of Many Eyes Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Carnegie Mellon University, Emergence 2007 , September 8 2007.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Carnegie Mellon University, HCII Seminar Series , September 5 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
ACS meeting, Chemical Information Division luncheon, August 20 2007.

Open Data Visualization: From Biomedical Informatics to Romance Movies
Martin Wattenberg
Boston Medical Center - Medical Informatics Seminar July 18, 2007

The hidden beauty of numbers Article by Simon Briscoe. The Financial Times; published online on July 16, 2007.

IBM's Data-Visualization Champion Article by Reena Jana. BusinessWeek; published online on June 12, 2007.

Massively Collaborative Visualization
Frank van Ham.
Helping Users Make Sense of Social Networks: A Workshop . HCIL, University of Maryland. June 1 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( NEASIS&T ). NEASIS&T Awards Dinner . MIT Faculty Club, May 10 2007.

Collaborative Visualization: IBM’s Many Eyes project
Frank van Ham.
Dagstuhl Summit, Wadern, Germany, May 2007.

Sharing Data Visualization . Article by Kate Greene. MIT Technology Review.  Published online on April 11, 2007.

Big Blue lightens up . Article by Robert Weisman. Boston Globe, published online on April 11, 2007.

 Collaborative Visualization
Frank van Ham.
University of Rostock, Germany, April 2007.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis
Cornell Microsoft International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities Fernanda Viégas. Cornell University, March 29-31, 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: Then and Now Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence , Spring 2007 Seminar Series, March 15, 2007. [ presentation slides ]

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Analysis Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies Colloquium Series , March 8, 2007. [ presentation slides ]

Data sharing: the next generation . Article by Declan Butler. Nature 446, 10-11 (1 March 2007). Published online 28 February 2007.

Many Eyes: A Living Laboratory for Public Visualization.
Jesse Kriss
Carnegie Mellon University, Golan Levin's Information Visualization class. February 22, 2007.

2006

The Social Life of Visualizations Martin Wattenberg. University of Maryland, November 7, 2006.

Visualization and Contemporary Art Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. Infovis 2006 , Cambridge, MA.

Democratizing Visualization -- MP3 Fernanda Viégas. IDEA Conference. Seattle, October 24, 2006.

Mapping the Invisible Martin Wattenberg. Carnegie Mellon, Design Lecture Series, October 3, 2006.

Mapping Collaborative Work Article by Reena Jana. BusinessWeek, September 25, 2006.

Can Visualization Help? Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Ben Shneiderman. Wikimania 2006, Cambridge, MA.

Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? Article by Stacy Schiff. The New Yorker Magazine, July 31, 2006.

Map: Evolution Evolving History Flow diagram on Discover Magazine . Vol 27, No. 07, July 2006.

Response to Jaron Lanier's Article on Digital Maoism Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Edge, May 30, 2006.

Blogging Ethics Fernanda Viégas. Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics. Ohio University, April 7, 2006.

Wikipedia as Bureaucratic Third Place Fernanda Viégas. MSR Social Computing Symposium, 2006.

2005

Design for Revelation Martin Wattenberg. Rhode Island School of Design, Digital Media and Culture, Dec. 9, 2005.

The Social Life of Visualizations Martin Wattenberg. MIT - CSAIL HCI Seminar, Nov. 4, 2005.

The Social Life of Visualizations Martin Wattenberg. U. C. Berkeley - SIMS Distinguished Lecture, Oct. 12, 2005.

Visualizing Social Interactions and Collaboration History Fernanda Viégas. MSR Social Computing Symposium, 2005.