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An amazing example of the uses of text mining and visualizations to understand historical data.

Data mining uncovers 19th century Britain's fat... Phys.Org Data mining uncovers 19th century Britain's fat habit Phys.Org Text mining, the process of searching large volumes of data to dig out nuggets of information, in combination with information visualisation, which can help to reveal and...

This article talks about how Elesiver, an academic article publisher, is opening up their content to subscribers for text mining. While this is great, we know that the pace of innovation can be increased if more publishers continue to give open access for end-users to mine their content. One of the reasons, other than revenue generation, not touched on in this article is the difficulty of having the bandwith necessary to handle it. Here is another article which talks about that: http://blogs.plos.org/opens/2014/03/09/best-practice-enabling-content-mining/ -1235

Leading Publishers Experiment with Open Access ... Recently, one of the world’s largest publishers announced it would permit conditional open access to its collection of millions of online scholarly papers.