swivel.gif Accord­ing to the first state­ment on the page, ” Swivel is a place where curi­ous people explore all kinds of data.” Cool! Its is a col­lab­or­at­ive space in which people are free to share data and visu­al­iz­a­tions of that data that they have found inter­est­ing. This invites oth­ers to play with the same data and see what they can find out. Its an agora of ideas and a sand­box for inter­ested par­ti­cipants to sift through inter­est­ing data­sets to hone their own per­cep­tions and to con­trib­ute to oth­ers ongo­ing research.