Are You a Data Hound?
If you like graphs, charts, comparisons and data, you’re gonna love Swivel!
Swivel is a place where curious people explore data — all kinds of data.
Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.
Swivel is full of good stuff. Check this:
* Explore popular data or obscure data. Search for it or just have fun cruising all the colorful graphs, data sets and opinions.
* Compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. You might find a crazy coincidence or something more.
* Share your insights by posting a graph to your blog or emailing a link to your friends and coworkers.
* Upload the information you care about, describe it, pick a color scheme and even pick a cool photo to bring it to life.
I love a site where I can find stats to back up my theories and hypothesis’. (Dunno if that is how you punctuate hypotheses in the plural.) Usually I have to track down first references for quality statistics. I’ll give Swivel a spin.
Tracee Sioux
http;//www.sosiouxme.com
http://www.blogfabulous.com
Okay, I just took Swivel for a spin. I found this handy graph that I got excited about discussing the numbers of women to men in public service jobs. The United States was at the bottom. But, then I noticed that they are comparing the United States to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - which is a rediculous comparison in terms of population, size, economics, industrialization, etc. A like-country comparison would be between the United States, Russia, European Union, China and Canada.
So, I’ll probably sift through Swivel if I need a statistic, but I would encourage everyone to carefully examine the graphs to determine if they are even relevant.
Tracee Sioux
http://www.sosiouxme.com
http://www.blogfabulous.com