February 2010
Beginner to intermediate
430 pages
14h 53m
English
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Chapter 23. Case Study: Many Eyes
Crime rates in local communities. Campaign donations. Testimony before Congress. Open government connotes open data. The Obama administration has acted on this premise and produced a series of websites that will function as repositories for government data, at both national and state levels. The next step for public engagement will be to make sense of this data. Visualization can help.
Visualization is a key medium for communication in a data-rich world. It can have a catalytic effect on data “storytelling” and collective analysis. We have seen examples of that power in Many Eyes, a public website we launched where anyone can upload and visualize data. The site fosters a social style of data analysis that empowers users to engage with public data through discussion and collaboration. Political debate, citizen activism, religious conversations, game playing, and educational exchanges are all happening on Many Eyes. The public nature of these visualizations provides users with a transformative path to information literacy.
Policy
Citizens are starting to realize the power of interactive visualization to help make sense of the political world around them at both the national and local levels. In this section, we will illustrate how people have been using visualization to think and talk about policy, the economy, the health of their communities, and their expectations for government.
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