Infosthetics points us to a recent TED Talk from Gary Flake, technical fellow at Microsoft, where he demonstrates their new “Pivot” technology. Based on the Seadragon technology, it offers views of an immense quantity of data with very nice and smooth zooming & multiresolution features.
“Right now, in this world, we think about data as being this curse, we talk about the curse of information overload, drowning in data. What if we can turn that upside down, so that instead of navigating from one thing to the next, we get used to the habit of being able to go from many things to many things and then being able to see the patterns that were otherwise hidden.”
Watch his talk below.
via Live Labs Pivot: A Massive Interactive Zoom on Data (TED Talk) – information aesthetics.
