FLIRTing with the Crowds

IBM releases many eyes, a swivel-esque, although more versatile web service for visualizing data.

Both applications aim to capture the collective wisdom for exploring meaningful patterns in seemingly irrelevant data. But where Swivel focuses on comparing data sets through graphs only, many eyes offers a range of tools, including maps, graphs, scatterplots, network diagrams, pie charts and tree diagrams.

While it may not make you Edmund Phelps, it may inspire some satisfaction in that number crunching geek in all(?) of us.