Gary
Flake recently demoed Pivot at TED. It is a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of
images and data online. Built on Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular
zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links
invisible in standard web browsing. Gary is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft,
and the founder and director of Live Lab. He shows how you can take control over
data to see trends that might be undiscovered otherwise. For example, being able to see all
Wikipedia pages related to a topic at once, allow you to see trends that are
not contained in any single entry.
He
said that with Pivot you can navigate the Web as if it is a Web and see
relationships. He talks about
taking the curse of data overload and turning it on its head to take advantage
of quantity to see the patterns within it. Here is Gary’s Pivot talk on TED.
Although
we take a different approach this is exactly the goal of the Darwin Awareness
Engine (TM). Instead of bring you long lists of content on topic that are order by
popularity, we show the top 100 themes within the content that relates to your
topic of interest. We attempt to
let you discover unexpected patterns, content, and relationships in this
manner.
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