This is a recording of a talk at the NICAR (National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference last week, where the author discusses some of his recent work at the AP with the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and how to visualize clusters of documents for exploratory data analysis.
Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists. Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent. This begs the important question: what are they for?