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Ian Ayres visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart." This event took place on November 8, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

We've written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data. Most of the techniques are within the ability of the moderately experienced programmer.

You know your data is big - you found Hadoop. What implications must you consider when working at this scale? This lecture addresses common challenges and general best practices for scaling with your data.

Data is present in all the systems and processes in the world. IBM helps analyze this multitude of information to make intelligent decisions, while enabling business efficiency and adding value to many industries.

In the first commercial application of CeNSE technology, HP and Shell will build a wireless sensing system to acquire high-resolution seismic data. By vastly improving the quality of seismic imaging, the new system will allow Shell to more easily and cost-effectively explore difficult oil and gas reservoirs.

We thought it would be useful to propose one possible taxonomy - we call it the Snice* taxonomy - of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and iNterpret (or, if you like, OSEMN, which rhymes with possum).

A data analysis service for the learning science community

With so much technology and networking available at such low cost, what wouldn't you enhance? What wouldn't you connect? What information wouldn't you mine for insight? What service wouldn't you provide a customer, a citizen, a student or a patient?

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included, are under siege from a system of state control that is undermining the one thing upon which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of their scholarship. The theories and practices that are driving this assault are mostly American in origin, conceived in American business schools and management consulting firms. They are frequently embedded in intensive management systems that make use of information technology (IT) marketed by corporations such as IBM, Oracle, and SAP. They are then sold to clients such as the UK government and its bureaucracies, including the universities. This alliance between the public and private sector has become a threat to academic freedom in the UK, and a warning to the American academy about how its own freedoms can be threatened.

Several weeks ago, I posted a question on Quora asking for the best data blogs. There have been 26 replies with dozens of blogs recommended.