visualization, analysis, and next-gen tech

First, let me apologize for the lack of consistancy of postings.  A few months ago, Dan and I committed to creating this blog, but have since done a poor job of keeping up with it.  We recently agreed to make a conscious effort to maintain our schedules while still reaching out to our readers at least once a day.  Communciation is important to us, and we need to make the effort to keep our end of the bargain.  With that in mind:

I know it’s not new, but me being new to the “community”, I recently stumbled upon Many Eyes, part of IBM’s Collaborative User Experience research group.  The stated goal of the group is to “democratize visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis”.  Their approach seems to be one of an open community with discussion.  With roots reaching as far back as 2003, there are numerous interesting ideas on the site regarding what information can be visualized and how to do so.  They also have pages upon pages of visualizations, as well as 800+ pages of data sets.