Share your story
You know your numbers have a compelling story to tell, so share it with your team! Combine charts and insights in an interactive report. Your team can explore the numbers and help shape the final conclusion.
More chart types
You asked for them, and we built them. Swivel now has several chart types for all your graphing needs. In addition to vertical bar, line, and area charts we now offer stacked bar, stacked area, pie, and scatter charts. Check 'em out:
We're releasing new features as fast as we can build them. In this week's deploy, don't miss these goodies:
Feature your faves
If there's a certain spreadsheet or chart that you don't want your group to miss, feature it!
Easier chart creation
Creating charts on Swivel just got
more intuitive. Now, see chart errors and tips pop up right at the
problem area. For a quick fix, click on the action link or just ignore
it.
Dive into the data
When others are interested in seeing the
numbers behind a chart, they can dive right in. We only show the
numbers used to create the chart, so if there's confidential
information on your source spreadsheet, it's stays confidential.
Download your numbers
Now it's just as easy to get
your numbers out of Swivel as it is to get them in. Download charts and
spreadsheets so you can have a taste of Swivel in your reports and
presentations.
With Swivel Business you can track events and share insights with your colleagues by leaving notes. Swivel lets you attach notes to data sets or to points directly on your charts. When you leave a note, everyone in your
workspace gets an e-mail
notification. By using notes to record events, like a marketing launch
or a service interruption, you can see how your activities impact the
numbers.
Get started on Swivel Business to learn more about sharing insights!
Once your company's numbers are in Swivel Business, you can easily monitor them by creating reports. However, reports allow you to do more than just monitor your company's data; you can also compare private and public numbers, such as changes in the economy, weather, or demographics, to see how external factors are impacting your business.
We're excited to announce that we've removed the invitation-only restriction from Swivel Business.
If you haven't heard, we've designed Swivel for companies who want to monitor their business numbers. With Swivel you can keep your data up-to-date, monitor charts of private and public numbers, and share insights with your colleagues. Our goal with Swivel is to help you make your business smarter. Over the next few days, we'll be highlighting some of the features of the new Swivel.
Swivel Business is still a work in progress, and it has some rough edges. But we're excited to expand and improve the product, and we'd love to hear your feedback. So, check out Swivel Business and let us know what you think.
We just created a new Firefox search engine extension for Swivel. If you use Firefox you can now search for data at Swivel directly from the Firefox toolbar. It's easy to install.
1. Go to http://www.swivel.com. Notice the blue highlighting in the Firefox search box on the toolbar.
2. Click on the arrow in the search box and click Add "Swivel".
3. Start searching
It's that simple. From any page at Swivel you can add the search extension. If you have any issues or feedback on the search engine extensions please let us know using the feedback link on Swivel or send us an email at feedback@swivel.com.
We're working on making it feel less like the data you put into Swivel becomes carved in stone. You're already able to update a data set wholesale and append or replace data, but what about adding just a row or two or fixing a couple of values in your data? After today's update to the site, you'll be able to edit your data row by row and add new rows directly in Swivel. You will notice the 'Edit Data' link in the upper right-hand corner of the Data Set page for data you own.
When click on the link, you'll see a form for adding new data, and editing existing data. You can also remove data rows by checking a checkbox in the Delete column and hitting Save.
There are a few things we'd like to do but haven't built yet, such as adding multiple rows at once, and adding new columns. We'd like to hear from you if you find Data Edit useful — please let us know via the feedback link or by emailing to feedback@swivel.com.
There's lot of good stuff at Swivel — we have data across all aspects of life, and last week we worked hard to help you see the breadth of content at Swivel. After tonight's update, you'll be able to browse data by category. You'll find data about Economics, Entertainment, Health, Politics, Science, Society, Sports, Technology, and of course, the mixed bag. If you upload data, we'll ask you to choose at least one category for it.
You'll also notice Official Source data featured prominently on our home page. You can browse data sets from official sources, and look at Official Sources in our People section.
Thanks to Brian for writing the code and to Seema and her team of interns for diving into the data and categorizing over five thousand data sets at Swivel (thank God for interns!).
Enjoy, and please let us know what you think.
Admit it, there is a certain cool factor about maps on the web. We all like to look at where we are in relation to other places. Now, imagine the ability to look not just at where you are in relation to the nearest pizza place, but where you are in relation to all the world's data. If you live in the US, how your state ranks in number of vehicles on the road. Or percent of Muslims by country worldwide. Or the top 13 countries for military spending.
We thought it was a pretty cool idea too, so, we launched Swivel Geography. Or Swivel G. Or the Geo-spot for data.
Swivel G is built on world-class map technology and includes many of the features users have grown to love, such as the ability to zoom in and out and move seamlessly from one part of the globe to another. Swivel G adds to the experience with interactive features that enable users to drill down into specific data points in more detail.
All of the graph edit features are still there, we have just added a tab for maps, next to the one for data cloud. And if you like what you see and want to use the data in, say, Google Earth, we have provided the KML version for download as well - located just below the map.
And for those of you in the Bay Area, if you want to see a live-action demo of Swivel G, please come by the O'Reilly Where2.0 conference in San Jose, CA tonight at 7 - open to the public.
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