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Needlebase allows you to view web pages through a virtual browser, point and click to train it in understanding what fields on that page are of interest to you and how those fields relate to each other. Then the program goes and scrapes the data from all of those fields, publishes them into a table, list or map, and recommends merges of cells that appear to be mistakenly separate. It's very cool and it lets non-technical people do things with data quickly and easily that we used to require the assistance of someone more technical to do.

A short introduction to the semantic web

The comments to the video are also interesting.

SDArch - Semantic Document Architecture is our atempt to bring the vision of the Semantic Web to desktop office-like documents. SDArch aims at enabling desktop document data to be efficiently discovered, linked and shared across application, enterprise and community boundaries. It introduces 'semantic documents' as completely open and queryable resources, containing data which is uniquely identified, semantically annotated and understandable by both humans and software agents.

Shared by Sheila MacNeill during January 25 web conference with Dragan Gasevic. "another great site taking linked data approach from the BBC" 

Shared by Sheila MacNeill during Jan 25 web conference with Dragan Gasevic -- short briefing paper on the Sematic Web, linked and open data from JISC CETIS (PDF)

"IN-SPIRE™ -- an information visualization software application -- provides a wealth of tools for exploring textual information, including query, subset, and trend analysis tools. Through visual representations of information, users can rapidly discover hidden information relationships from a variety of data sources such as technical and patent literature, marketing and business documents, web data, accident and safety reports, newswire feeds and e-mail message traffic."

"The Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) research first identified, then devised a scientifically rigorous way of assessing the essential characteristics of effective lifelong learners." Shared during Feb 18, 2011 web conference with Simon Buckingham Shum

"VizThink is a global community for visual thinkers and communicators who like to get beyond words and believe that visuals can be an effective tool whether you're just trying to work through your ideas or working to get your message across as simply as possible." Shared by Adam Weisblatt during Feb 18, 2011 web conference with Simon Buckingham Shum

Slides from Feb 18, 2011 web conference Learning Analytics: Notes on the Future Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute Open University UK

"Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas. Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking." From Feb 18, 2011 web conference with Simon Buckingham Shum

From retailing to counterterrorism, the ability to analyse social connections is proving increasingly useful

A profile in Wired Magazine of the founder of hunch (and founder of Flickr!): Caterina Fake

A data analysis service for the learning science community

Hace Estadísticas de tu Cuenta.

De hecho cualquier persona puede poner el nombre de otra y observar las estadísticas de comportamiento de esa otra persona. Es por tanto, una herramienta de doble filo, permite comparar tu actividad con la de otros, pero por otra parte están controlando a qué horarios te conectas, a quien retuiteas, cuales son las palabras que más utilizas, etc. A mí personalmente me ha sorprendido mis propias acciones. A veces piensas que vas en una dirección y sin embargo estás performando otra. Si alguna persona lo prueba, me gustaría saber su opinión. Saludos

According to Eva Tardos, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, the researchers' paper "is more the beginning of research than a definitive result or end product." The researchers' models make several simplifying assumptions - including the number of competitors - that make the math easier but limit their applicability. Nonetheless, "just raising the questions is an important step forward," Tardos says.

Among the greatest innovations might be the advent of real-time analytics, which allow the processing of information in real time to enable instantaneous decision-making.