Scientists hope for new tricks in data analysis

It turns out even computers can have information overload.

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Home in Kentucky, Part 3-- Saturday's Child Must Work Hard for a Living!

Monday morning dawned bright and early, with the alarm beeping at 6:30 am. I pried myself out of bed, still tired from the trip—a bone-weariness that a couple of days of relative 'rest' did little to ameliorate.

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Few in the field of survey research have examined the problem of cell phones and surveys as closely over the last four years as Scott Keeter and his colleagues at the Pew Research Center.

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At an experimental Web site, Many Eyes, (www.many-eyes.com), users can upload the data they want to visualize, then try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays.

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Many historical processes are dynamic. Empires rise and fall, populations and economies boom and bust, world religions spread or wither.

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The anticipated bear market bounce in Financials has led to the usual fools' chorus that the worst is behind us, the economy is on the mend, and a recession is avoided.

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Today we are going try something a little different. Rather then synthesize what's in the news, flavored with my opinions, I am going to ask several questions -- and leave the answering to you, the reader: Read 1-12.

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In-Q-Tel, an investment firm launched by the CIA, has made an investment in StreamBase Systems Inc., StreamBase announced Monday. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences is planning a large-scale computer project to make it easier for researchers at its 90 institutes to share their data.

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