Introduction
- Many Eyes, a data visualization tool, is a SaaS offered via Cognos and IBM.
- Many Eyes is a "shared visualization and discovery" service.
- It is another rich way to present data and content on the Web.
- It allows the entire internet to upload data, visualize it, and talk about their discoveries with other people
- Users can upload their own datasets, and/or work with existing datasets on the site.
- There are a lot of great options to visualize the datasets.
- When you need to create stunning interactive pictures quickly, IBM’s Many Eyes is a great solution.
Creating a visualization
1. 1.
Now, let us see how to
create visualizations using Many Eyes.
Create a login at Many Eyes. Here is the url
for you.
2.
2. Now, you
have to upload the data set or you can choose any of the existing data sets on
Many Eyes and create visualization. For uploading your own data set, go to ‘Upload
a data set’ under ‘Participate’ head on the left side of
the web page.
If your data is a list of values, first
format it into a table with informative column headers. If your columns have
different units of measure, be sure to include the units in the headers. Use a
spread sheet program such as Microsoft ExcelTM or a text file where columns are
separated with tabs.
This is the data set I
have chosen - Market share of mobile companies in Q4
|
Company
|
4Q12 Market Share (%)
|
4Q11 Market Share(%)
|
|
Samsung
|
22.70
|
19.60
|
|
Nokia
|
18.00
|
23.40
|
|
Apple
|
9.20
|
7.40
|
|
ZTE
|
3.40
|
4.00
|
|
LG Electronics
|
3.20
|
3.50
|
|
Huawei Device
|
2.90
|
2.90
|
|
TCL Communication
|
2.40
|
2.20
|
|
Lenovo
|
1.80
|
1.10
|
|
Sony Mobile Communications
|
1.70
|
1.90
|
|
Motorola
|
1.70
|
2.10
|
|
Others
|
33.20
|
31.80
|
3. 3. Copy the above text and paste it in the rectangular space provided
4. 4.
Provide the title for the data and other
information in the following screen. Please note that only title is mandatory
and all other fields are optional. Click on create
5.
5. The final data set will look as follows
6.
6. Click
on Visualize to select the type of visualization you want for your data. For
example, I have chosen "Matrix type" for which the visualization is
shown as below
Wide ranges of customization options are available and you
can choose different options as per your requirement. Several other
visualization types like bubble charts, hisograms, network diagrams, pie
charts, line graphs etc. are also available
Pros
· - Huge variety
of visualizations
· - Allows
analysis of complex data
·
- No software
to be download and installed
·
- Explore
others’ datasets and visualizations
Cons
·
- Once you
upload the data you cannot edit the values
·
- Might crash
the browser
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