Thought about this a lot but never saw any dataviz program like this before. Hans Rosling’s program was very informative, but based on relatively simple government data. Pivot is made to draw from much larger sets; it’s designed for making sense of the modern internet.
I like how Pivot will let me view information the way I want to view it – start off by viewing everything all at once, then drilling down in more detail after taking a look at trends and common qualities of large bins of data.
There’s so many things I want to use this for… I hope I can be diligent in my studies and eventually be a good enough programmer to develop something that will take advantage of Pivot’s capabilities. Even if I never get there, somebody out there is definitely going to be able to make an amazing tool out of this, I’ll just use theirs once they release it.