"Prediction technology can be interesting and mathematically elegant, but we need to take the next step. The technology exists to build data products that can revolutionize entire industries. So, why aren't we building them?"

"A new web-based visualisation platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography."

O'Reilly examines the components of the Hadoop ecosystem.

Free software tool that visualizes image and video collections using the ImageJ program. Shows actual images which can be scaled size and organized according to date, content, visual characteristics, etc.

Open source, multi-platform, graph visualisation and manipulation software

Wired look at how companies like Zynga, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook get people to share their personal data.

"Users’ willingness to provide data about themselves depends on some sort of trust."

"AlchemyAPI utilizes statistical natural language processing technology and machine learning algorithms to analyze your content, extracting semantic meta-data: information about people, places, companies, topics, languages, and more. "

Pattern, a Python module for mining web data

A distributed data scraping and processing framework running on node.js.

Dan Nguyen gives and overview of how to pull data from Flash, PDF and HTMl using a wide set of tools.