At a new experimental website ‘Many Eyes’, users can upload the data of more technical nature that they want to visualise, then try out sophisticated tools for the purpose of generating interactive displays. These well might range from a correct display of the comparative frequency of words in speeches by politicians like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to maps of relationships in the New Testament.

The website was built in January 2007 by the Thomas J. Watson Research Center scientists. The institution is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The registered users can judge one another’s work, perhaps visualising the same data with different tools, to discover unexpected patterns in the data.

The website is the brainchild of Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, two IBM researchers at the Cambridge lab. He says, “We want to bring visualisation to a whole new audience – to people who have had relatively lesser ways to create, discuss such use of data.”