So I went to a dorktastic librarian-y dinner last night, and the speakers were
Fernanda Viégas and
Martin Wattenberg from the
IBM Visual Communication Lab. Martin, for those of you contemplating baby names, also created the
baby name voyager. The two created a visualization program called history flow and used it to analyze changes to and usage patterns in wikipedia, documenting the rise of a beauracracy, among other things. It was way, way cool. They also have a side project,
Many-Eyes, where you can upload data sets and create visualizations, using your own data or other data already uploaded.