Pivot: Interact With Data

So the way we view the Internet currently works ok, but if you're looking for information you can really only view one page at a time, but what if there was a way that you could look more broadly at a topic or set of data, as well as narrow parameters? Cue Microsoft; it recently unveiled a application called Pivot, and it allows you to see the "web" as well as it's tendrils. For instance, if you were to take a look at a specific piece of information (say President Obama) and then pull back and look more broadly (like all U.S. presidents) and then sort by a different parameters (like by religious views.)

I may not have a complete understanding of it, but it looks fantastic. I saw this program first on a TED talk, and I really got me excited. It looks like it'll make research, and studying data much easier and even provide surprising insights you might not have found otherwise. With computing power reaching a peak, what's really going to change is the way we interact with computers and data. Keeping that in mind I'm quite impressed with Pivot.

You can try Pivot for free (PC ONLY) at GetPivot.com Check out the videos below for a better explanation.

I have to connection with Microsoft, I just liked this.