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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Wonder what data can do? check out Google Flu Trends!

Wow, Wow, god knows what people at google are doing. this latest breaking from google.org is shocking! google estimates the spread of the flu virus based on the search terms! http://www.google.org/flutrends/
I recall a Gartner analyst talking about the possibility of predicting earthquake by having hard disk sensors on all computers around the world send data to a central repository.
It's scary, inspiring and promising to see what you can do with data when you reach the critical mass.

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