A few searches on Google suggest that there are something like 2MM spreadsheets indexed on the web (found using the filetype operator and some numbers). We could conservatively estimate that each contains 10 data points. Swivel slurps spreadsheet data (actually, csv formatted). Where do we go from here?
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There's 395,000 csv files that include the word "date". It would be interesting to focus on extracting trends from those files to see which data series correlate.
Posted by: David Marcus | December 14, 2006 at 12:11 PM