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I thought this data was interesting, and I used it as an excuse to play around with some data analysis / visualization tools that I've been exploring lately, Many Eyes and DabbleDB.

I wrote a quick blog entry discussing how I used them to perform some further analysis on the data:

Visualizing and sharing data ( http://daniel.yipyip.com/77049.html )



One of the interesting things here was this graph (when you change it to $ per state); http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/wikified/acquired_startup...

Texas brought in almost as much money as CA in acquisitions in this snapshot of data.




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