Many Bills: A Visual Bill Explorer
Many Bills is a web based visualization that aims to make congressional legislation easier to digest. It presents bills from the House and Senate organized into collections and split into sections which are color coded and labelled to indicate what topic each section is about. It also provides a set of features designed to make it easier to find interesting or unusual parts of bills and communicate your findings to others.
Many Eyes
Many Eyes is a public web site that allows users to gather data, visualize it, and discuss their visualizations. We use the site as an experimental platform to test our hypotheses about the ability of visualizations to spur communication and social interaction, and how that activity may yield new insights into data.
Many Eyes Wikified
Many Eyes Wikified is an experiment in using a simple wiki language to collaboratively edit information dashboards. You can add data to Wikified, either embedded directly in a page or linked from an external website. You can then easily create a number of rich visualizations of Wikified content, embedding them side-by-side on separate pages or even right next to the data.
Past Projects
Chromogram
A chromogram is a deceptively simple way to visualize long sequences of text. We used chromograms to analyze the behavior of Wikipedia users, finding patterns in histories of tens of thousands of edits.
History Flow
History Flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, History Flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki pages on Wikipedia.
History Flow is available for free on the IBM AlphaWorks site. Learn more about the project on the History Flow site .
Book Voyager
The Book Voyager visualization displays book sales trends over time. It presents trends colored by topic and allows users to navigate the hierarchy of book categories while still displaying each individual subject within a larger group.