image adapted from Many Eyes

Visualization Annotation at Internet Scale, Social Data Analysis Workshop, CHI 2008.

Abstract
Visualization annotation allows users to communicate within a visualization as opposed to outside it. While effective in research settings, the technique has not found a home on today’s social data analysis sites. Scaling the technique to an Internet-sized audience represents the most significant obstacle to its wide-spread adoption. In this paper, we discuss the problem and propose four interaction techniques to help visualization annotation scale for a Web audience. Our designs strive for clarity of the underlying visualization while providing integrated and rapid feedback about annotations.

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