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Swivel

Touted as "Tasty Data Goodies", Swivel is a new startup that lets users upload, compare, and contrast data--from iPod sales to wine consumption--to make sense of the world. A Web 2.0 story in charts.

Like YouTube for data.
Swivel allows you to access public data sets and render them to suit your needs: color, size, animation, etc. As the data set is updated, so you your graph. The data sets and charts are uploaded by registered users. After the first two months, there were over 3500 users, with the top contributors submitting hundreds of data sets and graphs.

The Status of George Bush's War on Terrorism

Swivel is a fun, data exploration Web site for curious people.

fun: kaleidoscopic diversity of graphs and tables. rich palette of colors. photos. descriptions. ratings. commentary. user customization. constant community interaction. feeding off one another's ideas. crucible for debate. allow for biased and subjective spin: lies, damned lies and Swivel.
data exploration: user-provided data across a broad range of topics. suggestions for related data, popular data, new data, highly-rated data. quick and easy comparisons. favorite items. breadcrumb trails. preview graphs that encourage clicking. instant results. show me stuff, i'll know what i want when i see it. take the facts for a spin.
web site: as easy to use as a toaster. branching web of clickable links for intuitive data cruising. social networking among swivel users. complementary content and integrated functionality from other Web sites like Flickr, Wikipedia and Digg (coming soon). organic, living system. not a complicated configurator like enterprise software, instead: tasty data goodies.
curious people: folks who are naturally inquisitive and love to hypothesize, investigate, and learn

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