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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. The magic is when an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. Information visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data. We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.

Graphic representation of approx. 700 factors + sectors in the U.S. economy, measured on a monthly basis, going back to 1919. Data is from U.S. Federal Reserve, now open thanks to Pres. Obama's "Open Data Initiative." FedViewer remixes data w/ contextual landmark events, giving a comprehensive display of economic data, without interpretation, in the most accessible visual formats possible.