The development of visualization tools like the ones I presented here help liberate millions of data slices in visual form, empowering humans to do what they do best: get creative and weave sequences of visualizations in search of new understanding.
While another example of liberating data that immediately springs to mind is a company like Xenta, which asks companies to upload their freight quotes in return for getting better price comparisons and intelligence.
A government consultation ends on September 10th.In this section The Old Lady bulks up The air war Shameless self-promotion Picky Slouching towards democracy Selling out ReprintsBritain is already "streets ahead" of most countries in liberating consumer data, says Liz Brandt of Ctrl-Shift, a marketing consultancy.
One thing they need to do is turn the possibly liberating power of open data and big data to their own advantage.
The federal government collects gobs and gobs of data on people, and thanks to a little something called the Freedom of Information Act, people can make requests to liberate some of it.
I am at Datapalooza, the Health and Human Services conference focused on liberating health data.
Semantic technologies (data mining) offer potential for liberating such data, but have not yet demonstrated the necessary flexibility or speed needed for broad uptake in the verbose, descriptive disciplines of taxonomy and ecology.
has also undertaken a variety of initiatives to "liberate" health data from the "government vaults," explains Todd Park, the agency's chief technology officer.
Google has also open sourced parts of the code and say they will create tools to let users "liberate" their data: "The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave's innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began.
They pose an intriguing question: why would you buy a bunch of gadgets designed to liberate the data from your PC if you could just shove the entire PC into your pocket?
