Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brandon minimun from TechnoBuffalo and in this video I'm gonna show you something really awesome that just came out of Microsoft labs it's called pivot and it allows you to analyze massive amounts of data to help you make decisions and right now it's a free download I'll post a link on TechnoBuffalo on how to get it just kind of wanted to give you a demo of different ways that you could use this awesome new technology so here we start with the collections which are collections of data that Microsoft has pre-populated the idea is that if lots of people like this they're going to come out with more collections they'll create tools that will allow you to import your own data so that you can use this program so let's go down to dog breeds I really like dogs and I want some help in trying to find a dog that is right for my lifestyle so I click on dog breeds and then I immediately get this really beautifully organized grid that is organized by group of dog and up here I can sort by different parameters I can sort by approximate lifespan so I can see right off the bat which dogs are expected to live longer than others and for me that's a good place to start so I'm gonna go down to to lifespan down here on the left side and I'm going to say that I only want to see dogs that live longer than say 15 years I want the dog to be around for a while so here we go these are the dogs that live for more than 15 years now I also live in a in an apartment so I want to make sure that the dog doesn't have crazy exercise needs that they won't get bored and start eating the furniture if I don't take them out for a run for an hour a day so I'm going to check off minimal and low for exercise needs and now we are drilled down to a couple of dogs but I also want a medium-sized dog I don't want a little kick dog that I'm gonna trip over when I walk in at night but I don't want a huge dog that's going to you know intimidate people when they come in so I am going to go into size and I'm going to check off medium and now I'm drilled down to just three dogs that fit all of my criteria and I can zoom in with my mouse I can move it up and down kind of like you know you're browsing on an iPhone and all of these look pretty ugly except for this one I like that dog you can click on it it tells you what the name of the dog is some information about it you get some web links for more information and that sort of thing so that's one example of how you can use pivot to help you find a dog that is right for you let's go to discover more collections and this time let's go to concept cars I really like cars and I'm always curious to see of the cool concepts that come out so right off the bat we get this visual display that shows us the different sort of body styles but of course you can filter it by different parameters let's see I want to see kind of the more recent turbocharged cars concept cars so I'm going to go to production here and I'm going to filter this out by just in the last 15 years or so so pivots going to regenerate and now we have a smaller list of choices I'm going to go down to aspiration I just want to see the turbocharged concept cars I really like turbocharged cars I like the sound that the turbo makes when it spools up and let's see what else I want to change body style I want to I want to see all of the coupe's and here we go here are all the coupes so we can go through and these are all the turbocharged coupes concept cars that have come out in the last few years and we can kind of move around on the screen very intuitively and elegantly just a really awesome way to sort of look at data and be able to find quickly information that you want let's do one more I'm going to go back to discover more collections and this time I'm going to go to Xbox Marketplace I haven't been to this one yet so I'm curious to see what it looks like so wow this shows all of the games that are available on the Xbox Marketplace we can sort by genre I want to go to release date I want to see sort of the older games that came out let's say in 2006 so we can drill into any of these columns go to 2006 and we can also use the zoom tool up here to kind of move back or you can use the zoom tool on your mouse and we see all of the Xbox titles here that came out in this year now I want to see only the racing games and flying games that came out in all of these years here they are and let's look at price I want to see sort of the the most expensive the hottest games that came out here they are and also I want to see game ratings games that really are made for or for everyone so I'm gonna check off efore everyone and then we're left with just a few titles that allows me to really drill down and see the games that I want to see that are for everyone that came out in the last few years that have to do with racing or flying this makes it really easy and intuitive to look up that information so again guys just a quick look at Microsoft pivot I think it's going to be an awesome thing in the future especially if it gets a lot of traction it really helps you analyze a lot of data quite easily in a very visually pleasing way that makes it easily digestible so again we'll post a link on TechnoBuffalo on how to get this and that's it for now