Power of Data Visualization

A massive data-collection effort reveals patterns in the ways that children learn language.

The MIT Media Lab's Human Speechome Project has collected more than 80,000 hours of video and 120,000 hours of audio recordings documenting the first two years of a child's life. The result is a massive database of parent-child interactions, illustrated in this graphic. Click on any word below to see when the child learned it and how often the child and his parents used it.

via www.forbes.com
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A look at Google's acquisition history and how those companies were integrated into the Google products you know and love.

via www.scores.org

Who are the sharks of the business world? Just like in the ocean- the business world is made up of big and little fish, and because they can’t always compete, the little fish sometimes become the food of the bigger fish. Here we take a look at some of the biggest business acquisitions of the past 10 years.

via www.meettheboss.tv

For the last three years, there have been more than 40 acquisitions of location-oriented technology startups. Though location startups are all the rage right now, so far this year there have only been 15 deals. Could we be due for a deluge of deals?

via gigaom.com