Swivel in the Press

Swivel and OECD Team Up to Promote Unique Gender Data

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 13, 2007) - Better data, better policies. This simple slogan is at the heart of a new partnership between Swivel, a collaborative environment for exploring data, and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). By making its innovative Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base (GID-DB) available on Swivel.com both organizations hope to raise awareness for an emerging topic. Featuring the unique, gender-focused data will enable Swivel's site visitors to discover connections between gender and other important issues facing society today. Swivel's community can then discuss and debate insights gleaned from this information to better understand gender disparities around the world and lobby for more effective policies that contribute to improving the current situation. Read the full release

World Health Organization Provides International Health Data on Swivel

The World Health Organization agreed to make its data, including details from the 2007 World Health Report, available at Swivel.com at no cost. "Health is a globally shared responsibility, and we look forward to making WHO data easily accessible to a wider audience via Swivel's site to ensure better communication of and collaboration regarding critical health information," said Ties Boerma, director, Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems at the World Health Organization. Read the full release

Swivel in the Financial Times

Swivel was mentioned in an article about the beauty of numbers in the Financial Times. From the article, "Brian Mulloy, chief executive of Swivel, says such presentation tools could have many applications for small and medium-sized businesses. For instance, a head of sales might want to add some pizzazz to revenue updates for a far-flung team, or a company's analyst might want to plot turnover against the weather or some other unusual variable." Read the full article

PCWorld 25 Web Sites to Watch

PCWorld included Swivel in it's annual list of 25 Web Sites to watch. From the article, "Data and graph fanatics, you have a home. Swivel, holds a mind-boggling array of charts and graphs--from a line graph illustrating the relationship between wine consumption and crime in the United States over the past 30 years to a pie chart showing the percentage breakdown of bird flu cases in 14 Asian countries. But the site's most outstanding feature is its ability to integrate different charts containing seemingly unrelated data. Want to compare the national murder rate to the cost of a first-class stamp, or to total hours of media use in U.S. households, over the same period of time? Now you can." Read the full article

Swivel Launches Swivel Geography

Swivel launched a feature that allows the data community to easily visualize and understand data directly on a map. Andrew Turner, founder of High Earth Orbit, says "it's good news for the geospace industry that Swivel's large and growing repository of the world's data can be seen on maps." Built atop world class map technology, users can zoom and pan across the globe to understand data. Data can also be imported into Google Earth via KML, a standard format for representing geolocation data. Read the full release

OECD and Swivel Invite Curious People to Explore, Discuss and Debate the OECD Factbook

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 16, 2007 -- Swivel, a data exploration Web site for curious people, today announced that The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will make its 2007 OECD Factbook available on Swivel's site, www.swivel.com. The OECD is an intergovernmental organization that facilitates discussion among its member countries on economic, social and environmental issues. Now, inquisitive people can easily obtain the most accurate and current set of economic, social and environmental indicators worldwide and discuss them openly with a community of interested peers. Read the full release

Gartner covers Swivel

Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, included Swivel in their report on Cool Vendors in Analytics, Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management, 2007. From the article: "We picked Swivel as cool, because it is a fun Internet site, trying new approaches to business intelligence which could have valuable business implications. Swivel approaches data like YouTube approaches video. ... Anyone that enjoys working with data should visit the site to understand the approach that Swivel is taking and think about the potential value for their business role.". Read the full report

Swivel in Nature

Declan Butler of the journal Nature, wrote an article about Swivel and IBM's Many Eyes in the March 1st, 2007 edition. From the article: "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," [Brent Edwards, director of the Starkey Hearing Research Center in Berkeley, California] says. If research organizations and journals linked the raw data behind papers to social software tools such as Swivel and Many Eyes, he argues, "it would have considerable value to the scientific community as a whole". Read the full article

Swivel in Fast Company

Michael Prospero at Fast Company wrote an article about Swivel in the March 2007 issue. He and the graphics team there did a cool job telling the story of how we got Swivel off the ground. Here's an excerpt: "Swivel, a new startup, 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. You can read it on page 26 of the print magazine or if you are a subscriber you can read it online.

Swivel Mentioned in Wired

Wired mentioned Swivel in their Playlist for February: "Imagine our delight at a Web site that not only lets you play with other people's data but also helps you make your own charts! (Yes, we're nerds: and that surprises you why?) Upload Excel files or enter your own figures. From there, create a mashup of your data with someone else's, pick a pretty chart style, and kiss Excel ugliness good-bye." Read the full playlist

The TechCrunch Blog Post That Started It All

Michael Arrington single-handedly launched Swivel Preview into the blogosphere when he wrote: "Swivel Co-founders Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy start off by describing their company as 'YouTube for Data.' That’s a good start for someone trying to understand it, because the site allows users to upload data - any data - and display it to other users visually. The number of page views your website generates. Or a stock price over time. Weather data. Commodity prices. The number of Bald Eagles in Washington state. Whatever. Uploaded data can be rated, commented and bookmared by other users, helping to sort the interesting (and accurate) wheat from the chaff. And graphs of data can be embedded into websites. So it is in fact a bit like a YouTube for Data." Read the post

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