Ruby tipped me to this neat web based tool from corporate giant IBM called Many Eyes. It doesn’t appear to be open source but may provide positive uses. Repurposing tools can be a valuable insurgent method.

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.

Here is a visualization of world wide oil consumption. The data is from BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2006. Comment on the visuals here. The java plugin required to view this is available here for download.

Click on above image to go to visualization.

Posted by BrianR in Analysis