I just saw this video on Ted about this sort of hierarchical browsing software called Pivot that is currently being developed by Microsoft. This is absolutely amazing and I can really see how this is going to shake-up how we view information. Apple has already started down this path with recent versions of Safari, and the pinch/zoom browsing on the iPhone and iPad, but this really takes it to a whole new level.
Gary Flake, a R&D developer at Microsoft, puts it that the whole of the data is greater than the sum of the parts. This type of information gathering/sorting is going to turn the average person into a statistician. It makes trends and insights happen in a visual way, and for a numbers impaired person like me, this is a great thing.
Pivot is available for download as a Beta test, and for the first time in three years I wish I had a PC!
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