In the September 25 issue of Business Week, Reena Jana writes:
"History Flow, a data visualization project development at IBM's Watson Research Center, is a free-for-download tool that illustrates how collaborative authors work together and construct vast, fluid documents together on wikis. It has been used to track traffic and vandalism on Wikipedia, but its creators, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda B. Viegas, are now studying how different wiki designs might affect what types of ideas and texts are produced. Because History Flow is still a research experiment, expect bugs - although users can e-mail their questions and comments and contribute to the further development of this work-in-progress."
While this is a clear example of Web 2.0 (on many levels - both in what the tool is doing, how it is being perfected by users, and its availability), it seems like it would be an interesting tool for the speaker that we had a few weeks ago, who is working with Reuters on collaborative journalism. I am curious as to what the insights are from this study. How does the map help track vandalism? If there are certain patterns, that may be helpful to journalists.
Is anyone else familiar with this study and how it works?
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