Introduction
From Impure Wiki
“Unlocking, transforming, storing, distributing, and switching about are ways of revealing.” from The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger
Impure is an online application which empowers people to be part of the information revolution. It is a powerful tool to gather, combine, analyze and deeply understand data in the Internet. You can work with your own data or with many sources available online, such as news feeds, social media streams, real time or historical financial information, search results, images and many more.
Impure's modular interface lets you design information flows with ease, linking data sources to operators, controls and visualization methods within a graphical interface that clearly displays the structure of your process. In this way, it helps enabling even non-programmers to work with information in a professional way and to explore complex bodies of data.
Among other possibilities, impure allows you to:
- easily read data from diverse sources and repositories
- load your own data locally or remotely
- visualize it in a wide range of ways (more than 100 visualization methods so far)
- process it.. compare it... mix it.. filter it... (more than 300 controls and operations so far)
- publish and share your projects
Using Impure is easy and intuitive; you don't need to type any code. All is done by linking modules together to set up information flows, that begin with feeds or other data inputs and end with processed data or visualizations. In between, you can set up interactive controls to let users choose or modify parameters dynamically and see results change in real time. Often the visualization modules themselves can be used as controls and feed the whole process back to enable exploration.
Impure has been conceived as a flexible tool that contributes to the democratization of the information age for all Internet citizens, and turns the Web into an unlimited resource for the generation of insights and knowledge in your preferred area of interest.
