Swivel: Data Sharing and visualization tool (2) - 2 views
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louwnaw on 02 Apr 10http://www.swivel.com/ References [1] IPSN'07 Overview. Data sharing and Interoperability on the world-wide Sensor Web. http://research.microsoft.com/ [2] Features page 2010 from: http://www.swivel.com/ [3] Cuff, D et al. 2008 Urban Sensing: Out of the Woods. Communications of the ACM. Vol 51, No 3.Retrieved on 3/4/2010 from: http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/ehost/
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louwnaw on 03 Apr 10"Swivel is not a data visualization tool. Swivel is not a data analysis tool. Swivel is the world's first data sharing tool." [2] A multitude of embedded sensing platforms have given rise to abundant statistical data available on request, or in the public domain.[1] Geocoded data, its visualization on the geographic information system Google Earth and "mash-ups" with Google Maps, have reduced the technical barrier to visualize data. Embedded network sensing has gone from the lab to nature and is now in our suburbs. "Urban -sensing" are reaching into the worlds of politics, aesthetics, interpretation and motivation.[3] As a business tool mash-up applications; or, the ability to pull data in from multiple sources and render it into a coherent visual model for presentations to customers or team members, can make a significant difference to the experience.[1]
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louwnaw on 03 Apr 10The Swivel mission statement commits to, "empower the world's data" by turning information into action. Customers range from businesses to clubs or individuals. Cleveland.com, The Huffington Post, U.S. News and The Texas Tribune has embedded the product for journalistic statistical manipulation. Swivel lets people see, understand and share their numbers, visually. Contributing data to the public domain or to a private setting, (group, project, customer-base etc.), allows comments and feedback by way of notes. Swivel can be teamed up with, Salesforce.com, Google docs, Google Analytics, QuickBooks and more.[2] Swivel is user friendly; you can upload Excel files, (97 through to 2007 version), or use Swivel spreadsheets by pasting (or typing) raw data from a file or website. Formatting options are available for font face, size and colour.' One-click' manipulation creates custom charts. Interactive error messages guide and suggest alternatives. A wide range of chart types are available. Most importantly charts and spreadsheets are easily embedded as interactive widgets or static images. Swivel is free for public data or available on a monthly contract for private use. Swivel support is available on email and Twitter. http://www.swivel.com/public , for Public reports, charts and data e.g. "Forbes Top Ten List over the past 10 Years.[2]
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Elaine McDonald on 08 Apr 10Swivel Co-founders Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy describe their company as "YouTube for Data." The Swivel site allows users to upload any data and display it visually to other users. Users can upload any type of data for rating, commenting and bookmarking by other users. Graphs of the data can also be used and embedded into other websites. (Arrington, 2006) Any data on Swivel can be compared to any other data regardless of whether or not there is any correlation. Arrington (2006) remarks that it is possible to compare data as diverse as "gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales". Not all data is made public though. Swivel provides a free service for public data but also offers a premium service whereby, for a fee, data can be stored privately, still allowing the owner to compare their private data to public data sets. (Arrington, 2006) In comparison to Swivel, similar data sharing capabilities are offered by IBM's Many Eyes http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/. Many Eyes allows users to create more complex graphs such as network illustrations, which depict nodes and connections as well as treemaps that present data as groups of nested rectangles. (Butler, 2007) Brent Edwards, director of the Starkey Hearing Research Center in Berkeley, California, points out that journals could move science forward much more effectively by using the Internet to share information. He says "I'm often frustrated by my inability to analyse in a different way data that are printed in peer-reviewed publications, when I'm interested in looking at a relationship that the authors didn't think of". If journals and research organisations linked the raw data behind their papers to collaborative software tools such as Swivel and Many Eyes, he argues, "it would have considerable value to the scientific community as a whole". (Butler, 2007)
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Elaine McDonald on 08 Apr 10References Arrington, M. (2006, December 5). Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data . TechCrunch . Retrieved April 7, 2010, from http://techcrunch.com/2006/12/05/swivel-to-launch-this-week-communitize-your-data/ Butler, D. (2007). Data sharing: the next generation. Nature, 446, 10-11. Many Eyes. (n.d.). Many Eyes. Retrieved April 7, 2010, from http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/