1. Connectivity of news with data - a lot of news stories had links where you could dig in to datasets that were relevant to the news. 2. Availability of infor

1. Connectivity of news with data - a lot of news stories had links where you could dig in to datasets that were relevant to the news. 2. Availability of information under one symbol space allowing you to create views that pulls in information about very disconnected fields. 3. A company wide focus on converting things into "symbols". Most memorable example was the symbol for number of kidnappings in Mexico. The breadth of data available is truly impressive.