Toby Segaran Uses Freebase to analyze SEC database of 60,000 directors of public companies
Toby Segaran is a data mining guru. Example 1: Female CEOs of public companies, ranked by company revenues. Were you as suprised as I was by the number of female CEOs of VERY large companies? Very cool.
Example 2: Animated map showing Wal-Mart expansion year by year since 1962. Here’s a list of other Segaran queries slicing and dicing the FreeBase collection of SEC data on directors of public companies.