Valdis will present his work in "open source intelligence" -- finding interesting data and patterns on the WWW and making sense of them. He will explain how he used the web to create various network analyses with purely public information. 9/11 hijackers, their supporters, and their connections book buying patterns on Amazon economic development community in NE Ohio the blogosphere in NE Ohio Valdis will explain a simple method to follow in tracking web data and how Google is the only reserach tool you need to get started. He will show how government and business organizations do "link analysis" of both public and private data and how we have the tools do similar analysis of them. This will be illustrated with various examples from recent news stories. This newspaper article inspired this presentation