A system and method for implementing a cloud-based data processing platform for identifying intelligence information and insights based on data from a plurality of data sources includes: receiving a plurality of data stream; normalizing each of a plurality of data points in the plurality of data streams; analyzing the normalized data points and associated meta data information; identifying relationships between at least two sets of the normalized data points; and identifying intelligence information and insights based on statistical attributes of the normalized data and identified relationships between them; converting the identified intelligence information and insights into one or more stories; and communicating the one or more stories to a user interface.