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How Billions of Trivial Data Points can Lead to Understanding

Cloudera is a company that helps developers with big database problems. Here the CEO Mike Olson gives us a tour through the major database changes that are hitting lots of startups now.

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.

A documentary by Kate Ray

Metaweb is a service that help you build your website around entities and not just words.

Here we've got a classmate PC demo that shows off Richard Beckwith shows off Classmate Assist which supports users seated or standing at the desk or table. This is an example of context aware computing. There are visual sensors that recognize the items on the table and instruct and walk the students through a series of educational tasks. The goal is to support existing curriculum and practices of teachers.

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

NodeXL is a template for Excel 2007 and 2010 that lets you enter a network edge list, click a button, and see the network graph, all in the Excel window. You can easily customize the graph's appearance; zoom, scale and pan the graph; dynamically filter vertices and edges; alter the graph's layout; find clusters of related vertices; and calculate a set of graph metrics. Networks can be imported from and exported to a variety of data formats, and built-in connections for getting networks from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and your local email are provided.

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

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.

A short introduction to the semantic web

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