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What if the point was to have people make sense of the data for you in a collaborative way so that the publisher benefits with free insights into the data and everyone else benefits from these insights as well.
To fully appreciate what I mean, please watch this really good TED video about visualizing data.
IBM's Many Eyes and Many Eyes wikified is already doing this. You can share datasets and create amazing visualizations - even with live data (e.g. RSS feeds).
ReplyDeleteHowever, one issue with Many Eyes is that you can not modify the dataset once it is uploaded. You can delete and upload a new set, but there is no concept of collaboratively editing a dataset. Which is one thing I like about Google's Fusion Tables