The document discusses exploring open data using Google BigQuery. It begins with an agenda that includes an origin story, counting data, how BigQuery works, examples of cool open data sources, and doing something useful with the data. It then demonstrates counting words in Shakespeare, Wikipedia page views over time, and filtering Wikipedia data using regular expressions. The document explains how BigQuery queries are executed and processed in parallel. It provides several examples of exploring open weather, event, and genetic data. Finally, it walks through a example of using Wikipedia edit data to recommend a movie.