Amazing demo reel of Palantir visualization UI

Maybe this demo reel makes sense to their target customers, but it made very little sense to me. Not sure if it really tells a story to members of the general population.<p>Also, I personally felt that the "eye candy" wasn't so impressive. Looked like any other ERP/B2B system out there. Aside from the criminal clip art and the maps, it might as well have been.<p>Music was grating after 30 seconds as well.<p>Still dig the company name though.

There are a bunch of these kinds systems in the government. Palantir's tech is pretty cool and a nice spin on the area (besides looking nice and slick). But hardly new.<p>It takes a lot of cues from mish-mash systems like this one (warning PDF)<p><a href="http://www.cjmtk.com/EventRegistration/CjmtkConf08/DCGS-A_MFWS_Overviews_CJMTKUC.PDF" rel="nofollow">http://www.cjmtk.com/EventRegistration/CjmtkConf08/DCGS-A_MF...</a> (a hodge podge of every conceivable analysis tool and database under the Intelligence sun)<p>And more unified systems like this<p><a href="http://www.futurepointsystems.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.futurepointsystems.com/</a> (their page stinks but their tech is awesomely cool)<p>and other single purpose tools like<p><a href="http://www.i2inc.com/products/analysts_notebook/" rel="nofollow">http://www.i2inc.com/products/analysts_notebook/</a> (industry standard link-analysis)<p><a href="http://tactical.overwatch.com/products/axis_pro.htm" rel="nofollow">http://tactical.overwatch.com/products/axis_pro.htm</a> (another recent link-analysis tool)<p><a href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/</a> (<i>the</i> name in geospatial)<p>And others <a href="http://spotfire.tibco.com/" rel="nofollow">http://spotfire.tibco.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.oculusinfo.com/SoftwareProducts/GeoTime.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oculusinfo.com/SoftwareProducts/GeoTime.html</a><p>It's nice that they are expanding out into financial services and geospatial analysis. Up till now it's largely been a glorified (and very expensive) link-analysis tool (see i2's and overwatch's tools).

The streaming didn't work at all for me. You can download it directly here:<p><a href="http://media.palantirtech.com/palantir_demo_reel_final.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://media.palantirtech.com/palantir_demo_reel_final.mp4</a>

I can't believe this was written in Swing

I've seen these guys come up a few times over the years, and I think what they're doing is amazing. When I watched that video, I didn't just think "Wow, this is something cool" it was more of "I want to be involved with this". Working on the kind of stuff shown off in that video was just about as close to my dream job as I have ever seen.<p>On that note, I wanted to point out one screenshot in particularly, which just blew me away: <a href="http://blog.palantirtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/hh-dashboard.png" rel="nofollow">http://blog.palantirtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/hh-d...</a>. That has got to be one of the slickest, best looking interfaces I have ever seen. Some of the contrast is a little bad from a color-blind perspective (the titles for the widgets are very difficult to read), but the way they jammed so much information into a screenfull is amazing.

I got one of their free schwag shirts. It says, "You had me at hello world"

Seems to be only good for presenting data, not interacting with it really.

I didn't know music this bad existed. WHY would you use it in a demo real?