Swivel: Analysis as a Service?
Swivel is a service that allows users to upload datasets from virtually any source. These datasets are then spun through Swivel’s analysis engine, and the end products are nifty cross-sectional graphical representations of induced correlation between the datasets. For example – Per Capita Income vs. Property Crime. We’ve blogged in greater detail about Swivel in The SaaS Swivel, Double Line, and Rig Setup. Billed as ‘… a place where curious people explore all kinds of data’, we think Swivel has broader implications than this tagline suggests. Swivel’s concept is perhaps the ultimate service-oriented enterprise utility… a service with the ability to act on data, not just store it.
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