1. A method of explaining bursty events of an event stream, the method comprising: receiving validated bursty events; finding explanatory data sources having relevant bursty events that are relevant to the validated bursty events, wherein the explanatory sources explain the presence of the validated bursty events; correlating the validated bursty events to the relevant bursty events of the explanatory data sources to obtain burst results; and sending the burst results to a burst database that is accessible to an end user.