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"Where everyone in the world is migrating-in one gorgeous chart By Nick Stockton @StocktonSays March 28, 2014"

From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the World Wide Web Jim Hendler, Tim Berners-Lee Abstract The advent of social computing on the Web has led to a new generation of Web applications that are powerful and world-changing. However, we argue that we are just at the beginning of this age of "social machines" and that their continued evolution and growth requires the cooperation of Web and AI researchers. In this paper, we show how the growing Semantic Web provides necessary support for these technologies, outline the challenges we see in bringing the technology to the next level, and propose some starting places for the research.

50 MOST STUNNING EXAMPLES OF DATA VISUALIZATION AND INFOGRAPHICS Posted by Richie on Thursday, April 15, 2010 "A picture is worth a thousand words", if I had a penny for every time I heard that!! There is so much data in the world today that it has become impossible for us to analyze them with patience. Data as we perceive it, need not be boring, bland and cumbersome to remember. To make complex things seem simple, is Creativity and using pictures to represent data has been an age old method to analyze data in a fun way. From navigating the web in an entirely new dimension to understanding how the human brain works; from peeking into how Google has evolved to analyzing the inner working of the geeky mind, Infographics has completely changed the way we view content and visualize data.

December 22, 2011 IBM Solidifies Academic Analytics Investments Datanami Staff As their own detailed report in conjunction with MIT Sloan made clear, IBM is keenly aware of the dramatic talent shortfall that could keep the future of big data analytics in check. Accordingly, the company is stepping in to boost analytics-driven programs at universities around the world. A report out of India this week indicated that Big Blue is firming up its investments at a number of academic institutions worldwide in the hopes of readying a new generation of analytics graduates. This effort springs from the company's Academic Initiative, which is the IBM-led effort to partner with universities to extend the capabilities of institutions to provide functional IT training and research opportunities.