Many Eyes is a very cool data visualization tool from IBM Alphaworks. I dumped half a dozen old articles I’d written for CLO into Many Eyes and got this result:
I may run lengthy blog posts through this thing before deciding whether or not to read them.
Run the analysis on two-word combinations, and other patterns emerge:
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[...] Tag Cloud Software. I created a text file from the first two months of my writing in this blog and gave TagCrowd (thanks to Chris Fletcher) and IBM’s Many Eyes (thanks to Jay Cross) a try against that dataset. Both gave better results than my misguided choice described on 18 March. Many Eyes is the more robust choice between the two. Both are challenged with the three word phrase “personal learning environment” until I manually changed the input file to use personal_learning_enviroment. More tinkering for me to do some day here with both. [...]
Jay,
are you still using Many Eyes? If so, how are you finding it?
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