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Data visualization and future of having Data

By df
Ever wondered how it will be in next 5 - 10 years with data? Data is the king and as much data as you collect, (don't worry about presentation) there will be a method to interpret it. Your boss might say "Discard the data which is useless".. but DON'T :)

Let's see some "wonders of the world"  in data analysis. Of course , google comes here too

  1. Google ngram  - http://books.google.com/ngrams

  2. Google ngram data sets -> http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets

  3. Google public data -> http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

  4. Worldbank Datavisualizer -> http://devdata.worldbank.org/DataVisualizer/ 

  5. Yahoo Visualize -> http://visualize.yahoo.com/

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