Gigaom: NASA opens earth science data, cloud computing to the public as part...
NASA is launching a new challenge, hosted on Amazon Web Services, that gives the public access to a trove of earth sciences data and computational resources in the name of discovering…
View ArticleGigaom: Yahoo releases massive Flickr dataset, and a supercomputer steps up...
Yahoo has released a massive dataset for researchers to experiment on. The dataset includes URLs for nearly 100 million images and 700,000 videos, as well as their metadata. Soon, a larger…
View ArticleGigaom: Uber says it loves public transport and has the data to prove it
Uber is claiming that late-night train service in Boston has resulted in decreased Uber rides after bars close on the weekends. And, the company claims, it's happy about it because its…
View ArticleGigaom: Microsoft, Amazon target climate change with cloud computing grants
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services both announced research grant programs on Tuesday, promising millions of hours of cloud computing resources to winning researchers, as well as access to mountains of...
View ArticleGigaom: This analysis of modern history is a prime example of why big data...
A researcher has analyzed the past 35 years of world history in order to find periods most similar to present-day Ukraine and Arab-Spring-era Egypt. It's a great example of the power…
View ArticleGigaom: The tricky business of acting on live data before it’s too late
We're generating more data than ever and analyzing a lot more of it, too. But when it comes to responding quickly to potential public health crises or other situations, we need…
View ArticleGoogle is shutting down its Freebase knowledge base
Google announced Tuesday that the company is shutting down Freebase, the crowdsourced knowledge base it acquired in 2010 when it bought Metaweb. Freebase is a popular source of information about topics…
View ArticleOpen data progress is slow, warns Web Foundation
Accessible open data about government spending and services remains a pipe dream across most of the world, an 86-country survey by the World Wide Web Foundation has found. The second edition…
View ArticleA massive database now translates news in 65 languages in real time
I have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it's a great example of the type of ambitious project…
View ArticleData might be the new oil, but a lot of us just need gasoline
One of the biggest tropes in the era of big data is that data is the new oil -- it's very valuable to the companies that have it, but only after…
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