There's an interesting article in today's Sunday NY Times on a data visualization website at IBM called "Many Eyes". The story is available at the NY Times website at (you may have to do a free registration):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/technology/31novel.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin or http://tinyurl.com/6cem35 The website itself can be directly accessed at: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/homeOne of the interesting forms of data displays is for text andthere are examples of the frequencies of works in therecent political speechs of the U.S. presidential/vice-presidentalcandidates. Although it is interesting to see which wordsappear most often I don't think it really provides muchinsight (e.g., it's not surprising that Sarah Palin used "McCain"as one of her most frequent words; see:http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/Shcc1QsOtha613~kAVu1Q2~Too bad this story appears at the beginning of the semester. :-(-Mike PalijNew York [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
