Pivot: A Turning Point for Visual Data Exploration?

Ryan Coleman

3/4/10

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TED.com posted a new video in the past couple of days featuring Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the founder/director of Live Labs. Gary was demoing Pivot, a new tool from Microsoft’s Live Labs that was designed with the goal of making it easier to interact with massive amounts of data. this 6-minute TED video gives a run-down of a few of the features and tools Pivot makes available and is worth a watch for any of the visual data-mining junkies out there. If you want to play with Pivot yourself you can get it at http://getpivot.com

TED’s video Description:

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.

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