Also check out the VentureBeat article
Nov 15
Oct 01
A few former Google employees have launched a new startup called Zillabyte to help users analyze lots of data. Their idea was to give other people access to the type of tools they had as Google employees. You’ll have to sign up on their site to get an invite if you want to see what they’re up to. One of the co-founders, Peter Harrington, is the author of Machine Learning in Action.
Here’s an article from Techcrunch.
Sep 24
The team at Revolution Analytics has put together a set of instructions for how to use data from a spreadsheet in Google Docs with R. Since Google Docs is a good way to share data sets, and R is a great open source tool, this makes for an all-around good solution.
Aug 27
Here’s a video from Google about their search algorithm and here’s a Techcrunch article with more info.
Feb 25
In an effort to combat content farms, Google has made some changes to its algorithm. Check out the details at Techcrunch. And here’s another Techcrunch article talking about search related to Facebook.
Dec 07
The Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media blog has some good tips on using Google to locate Excel files. Try this next time you’re on Google: filetype:xls
Nov 20
Benjamin Edelman takes a look at some biases to Google’s own listings within its search results. Slashdot has some more info.
Oct 17
Google and their chief economist, Hal Varian, is creating a new index for the price of goods sold online. Check out the article from the Guardian.
Jul 31
Google now offers the capability to not only access many public data sets, but to explore the data using their visualization tools. Cool stuff.
