What we’re actually doing here
Posted in FreeTime on May 26th, 2009 by asjsWe’re eleven days to our first Beta and I haven’t really posted about what it is that we’re actually making here.
Graphient is building an application called FreeTime. FreeTime makes dynamic visual time lines out of whatever data or records you have laying around provided they have a time stamp or an identifiable time component. It doesn’t matter to FreeTime whether this is a database of some kind, or a spreadsheet or a website. FreeTime uses the common framework of time to bring all these kinds of data into one view so the user can explore it better. Because time is a common dimension to data and information FreeTime can bring data from many different disciplines together.
Example uses include really simple stuff like interactive historical time lines, or very complex things like media analysis or longitudinal study analysis. Some people we’ve talked to just want to use it to see what music they were listening to on a particular day.
We see time as a way to create context for the rapidly proliferating large-open-data-sets out there. We’ll be talking more about this as things develop. In the meantime, if you’re interested in being a beta tester get in touch.
May 26th, 2009 3:32 pm
Looking forward to it
May 29th, 2009 11:02 am
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