As part of the ‘Extreme Data/Extreme Story’ session at the 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, Cesar Hidalgo talked about “Truly Crazy Data” and spent some minutes talking about the Participie project.

From the conference page:

In this conference, we’re exploring the relationship between storytelling and data — this plenary session features a storyteller who’s going to amazing lengths to tell the story of human migration, and a scientist using data to unpack the mysteries of economics.