Friday, February 25, 2011

Visualize That Data

Leaders of large programs and projects need to find better ways of explaining their work to sponsoring executives, their teams, and their customers. Rows of numbers rarely tell the story that needs to be told. IBM's Many Eyes Experiment and the associated blog provide a wide variety of ways to visualize data and let you upload data sets and explore options.Try it for your next strategy session or program briefing.
Many Eyes Visualization options include:

See relationships among data points
       Network Diagram
       Scatterplot
       Matrix Chart
Compare a set of values
       Bar Chart
       Block Histogram
       Bubble Chart
Track rises and falls over time
       Line Graph
       Stack Graph
       Stack Graph for Categories
See the parts of a whole
       Pie Chart
       Treemap
       Treemap for Comparisons
Analyze a text
       Word Tree
       Tag Cloud
       Word Cloud Generator
       Phrase Net
See the world
       Massachusetts Map
       World Map
       US County Map
       New Jersey Map

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