Curious about How Well Your State’s Bridges are Doing? or about the Condition of U.S. Highway Bridges? Have a look and see the data in a visual format. The folks at IBM’s Collaborative User Experience research group use visualization “as an efficient way of transferring a large amount of information from a database into an individual’s head.” They believe that visualizations become even more powerful when multiple people access them for collaborative sense making. They developed Many Eyes, a public web site that allows users to gather data, visualize it, and discuss their visualizations. They use the site as an experimental platform to test our hypotheses about the ability of visualizations to spur communication and social interaction, and how that activity may yield new insights into data. Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. The goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Have a look how it works, and tell us what you think.