some interesting mashups/mining to predict different things

here are a few things I have come across, things I want to keep track of, and some other random stuff

I can be reached at charlie [at] onverra [dot] net

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some interesting mashups/mining to predict different things

Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse | Wired.com

The article has links to a bunch of examples of how you can mine data from different sources to predict different things or take an interesting look back on a recent event.

Some examples include:

google flu trends
health map
uk snow storm twitter map