Visualizing Data: The Data Journalism Handbook

The Data Journalism Handbook

"The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open-source reference for anyone interested in the field of data journalism. It features contributions from over 70 of the leading global voices of authority and has now been released, remarkably only 6 months after its conception. It is a joint initiative between the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation and is published by O’Reilly Media."

The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated

The average user has 736 pieces of personal data collected by internet and cell service providers every day, and different service providers retain this information for anywhere between 12 and 60 months. See how you are creating a Digital Identity and a Digital History every day in this animated video.

IBM's Watson is changing careers

Watson, the  Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is interesting in doing more than sparring with Alex Trebek. So it's going into business.

"Data analytics is nothing new. But the terabytes upon terabytes of unstructured data in the world (including Tweets, Facebook updates and Amazon reviews) is unprecedented. According to IBM's Saxena, 90% of the world's information was generated in the last two years. Producing data is much easier than making sense of it. That's where Watson and other next-generation analytics tools come in."