There was a Stanford EE380 talk (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012.html http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012.

There was a Stanford EE380 talk (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012.html http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012...) by Kriss Hammond of Narrative Science which is worth watching.