A Wider Net

Swivel just launched, according to Techcrunch. This is still a very early startup phase for what may be a wildly interesting data playground. Users can submit their own data - any data - and share it with the world. Then other users can play with that data, compare it to other data, and share that with the world.

Data purists will hate this as much as historians initially hated the Wikipedia. But, properly used, this will be fun, interesting, and ultimately - valuable and informative.

See the graph below that was on today’s front page. There are already almost 600 data sets to play with and cross-analyze. You just have to be careful about drawing conclusions that may be due to other factors.