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Factual Turns On Tools To Visualize Its Big Data

Big Data is great for geeks, but most normal people don’t get a kick out of looking at huge tables of data (Excel junkies excluded). Factual, which is an open database wiki, just added some tools to help visualize the data entered on the site.
Every table now has a “visualizations” tab which [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels

If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google for $100 million in 2003, and launched his latest startup, Factual, last October. He doesn’t really [...]

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Wed, February 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments