As a preface, I am posting this here because this is the only section of the forum I feel it is appropriate for. Really no other section of the forums will have the potential to appreciate this but I really think it's worth sharing.

Recently Google acquired a company called 'Metaweb' which hosts an open database which any user can use and modify. What really interested me after doing a bit of poking around was Freebase and the software they've developed called Gridworks. Gridworks can open literally any data file: CSV, TSV, *SV (any file where data is separated via delimiter, you can specify it during import), Excel, XML (rss, atom, etc.). Once you've got the data imported you can manipulate the data in a variety of ways and rather than try to list them all I recommend just watching the introductory videos.

Really, the software is amazing and I know I will be using it for any data I work with in the future. I will not be using python to write scripts to edit my CSV output or use Excel to display my data, this will now be without a doubt my 'go to' software for data.

Quote Originally Posted by Introductory Videos
http://vimeo.com/10081183
http://vimeo.com/11854491
http://code.google.com/p/freebase-gr...wiki/UserGuide
Download it!
http://code.google.com/p/freebase-gridworks/