IBM’s all consuming Many Eyes
07Mar07
An example of a visualization produced by ‘Many Eyes‘, here visualizing the number of ip addresses allocated to a country:
Many Eyes is an interesting info vis application from IBM which allows you to upload datasets and then choose various methods of visualizing them. I haven’t had a moment yet to look at the Terms of Service, but I wonder what IBM does with the data that you’ve uploaded. Do they claim it to be theirs?
Found from this post at Dan Cohen’s blog.
The TOS, as of right now, only points to IBM’s standard boilerplate notice. But in that notice, there’s “By sending IBM any information or material, you grant IBM an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information, and you also agree that IBM is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose.”
So, I guess, yes?
Still, lots of visualizations created already. The IP visualization is showing a very long tail, somewhat core-semiperiphery-periphery kind of distribution. Which we’d suspect to be the case already, but for me at least, seeing it presented as such is pretty interesting thing.
Should get some time to wander through the rest of the data sets and visualizations some time. Interesting app.