Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
March 1, 2010 | Source: Technology Review
IBM BigSheets can be used to collect, analyze, and visualize large quantities of unstructured data on the Web.
It uses IBM’s Hadoop to crawl through Web pages, parsing them to extract key terms and other useful data. It organizes this information in a very large spreadsheet, where users can analyze it using the sort of tools and macros found in desktop spreadsheet software.