The mission of the SwiftRiver initiative is to democratize access to the tools used to make sense of data.
About the Approach
To achieve this goal we’ve taken two approaches, apps and APIs. Apps are user facing and should be tools that are easy to understand, deploy and use. APIs are machine facing and extract meta-context that other machines (apps) use to convey information to the end user.
About the Community
Our Collection of APIs
We have five APIs that attempt to extract contextual features from feeds. Alone these are simply data processing APIs, when used by our apps they become far more powerful. The reason for building our own APIs (as opposed to existing APIs like Open Calais are simple) all of these tools need to be free-open source and available for offline use to be most effective for our greater objective.
Our Collection of Apps
We currently have two applications that use the aforementioned APIs. These apps are designed to look and feel relatively simplistic so as not to overwhelm the user with options.