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If your data is a hierarchy, a treemap is a good way to show all the values at once and keep the structure in the visual. This is a quick way to make a treemap in R.

Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. Write articles, press releases, to-do lists, etc. together with your friends, fellow students or colleagues, all working on the same document at the same time.

hyperGraphDB is a general purpose, open-source data storage mechanism based on a powerful knowledge management formalism known as directed hypergraphs. While a persistent memory model designed mostly for knowledge management, AI and semantic web projects, it can also be used as an embedded object-oriented database for Java projects of all sizes. Or a graph database. Or a (non-SQL) relational database.

There is a lot of movement in regulatory regimes around the world to address issues of individual level data. Whether it’s from social networks, mobile networks, web traffic, or health data, governments are starting to realize the impact of data on people. If we’re going to achieve our goal at Sage Bionetworks of redefining the way research is done through collaboration, we have to navigate a very complex landscape, especially in the European Union.

Synapse is a platform to support open, collaborative data analysis for clear, reproducible science. Synapse is currently targeting scientists working with clinical and genomics data.

Although promises of a paperless office may not have materialized yet, a bumper crop of ELNs (electronic laboratory notebooks) have been making the rounds to ease the gathering, processing, and dissemination of data. As we are constantly being reminded, without proper management, this torrent of data will soon overwhelm the scientific community with data anarchy, grinding progress to a halt and heralding in yet another Dark Age. Perhaps not, but the efficient management of projects when you have multiple students working on a summer iGEM (international genetically engineering machines team) becomes an absolute necessity, or things can quickly spiral out of control.

With this widget, you can make beautiful interactive timelines like the one below. Try dragging it horizontally or using your mouse-wheel. Click on each event for more details.

Computational knowledge. Symbolic programming. Algorithm automation. Dynamic interactivity. Natural language. Computable documents. The cloud. Connected devices. Symbolic ontology. Algorithm discovery. These are all things we’ve been energetically working on—mostly for years—in the context of Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, CDF and so on.

But recently something amazing has happened. We’ve figured out how to take all these threads, and all the technology we’ve built, to create something at a whole different level. The power of what is emerging continues to surprise me. But already I think it’s clear that it’s going to be profoundly important in the technological world, and beyond.