Comments on: Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:55:31 +0000

For the last two months I have been searching everywhere for public access logs, such as the ones produced by Proxy Servers. But I have not been able to find any. I understand that access logs include lots of private information, but it is possible to anonymize them for the purpose of research. If you know of anywhere or anybody that might be able to help me get access to something like this, please leave a note. It will help me a lot.

many thanks
A PhD Student from Australia

By: facility9 » Links for the Week

facility9 » Links for the Week — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:55:12 +0000

[...] Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research – Michael Arrington (via TechCrunch) outlines the new data sets that Amazon is bringing to the public. This is monumental for a couple of reasons. This data is going to be freely available to anyone and everyone. This alone will add considerable value to many existing applications. In addition, this gives people interested in BI a sufficiently large corpus of data to start learning about building dimensions outside of entry level tutorials. [...]

By: Amazon Public Data Sets bring the Cloud of Data closer | Paul Miller

Amazon Public Data Sets bring the Cloud of Data closer | Paul Miller — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:32:27 +0000

[...] Amazon issued its formal press release, prompting a flurry of coverage from Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Larry Dignan at ZDNet, Krishnan Subramanian at CloudAve, and many [...]

By: Amazon Tries to Lure Scientific Community into the Clouds | CloudAve

Amazon Tries to Lure Scientific Community into the Clouds | CloudAve — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:36:49 +0000

[...] articles by Zemanta Public Data Goes on Amazon’s Cloud Paging Researchers, Analysts, and Developers Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research Werner Vogels CTO Amazon about cloud computing @ AWS Start-Up Project Amsterdam Posted Under : [...]

By: Ellie Fields

Ellie Fields — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:24:31 +0000

Michael, I’m at Tableau Software. We do data visualization software and can simplify large and complex data sets, and we might be interested in analysis of your data. Drop me a note at efields at tableausoftware dot com if you want to follow up.

By: shaan

shaan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:39:50 +0000

Google has GoogleBase which is more generic than this, I believe.

By: Information Management Week Summary

Information Management Week Summary — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:22:01 +0000

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By: Giman

Giman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:05:27 +0000

“and then let others integrated that data into their own AWS applications”

Can you spell?

By: Amazon Gets In On the Public Data Arena | FlowingData

Amazon Gets In On the Public Data Arena | FlowingData — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:14:54 +0000

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By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:41:40 +0000

[...] data, genomes, etc. – and then let others integrated that data into their own AWS applications. (http://www.tech...o-ease-research [...]

By: Eric Jain

Eric Jain — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:20:43 +0000

Chances are there are people who work with these data sets but have not been using Amazon’s compute cloud because they felt it would be too tedious (or expensive) to have to upload and pay for storage of gigabytes of data (some of which is frequently updated). So this seems like a smart move!

By: Michael Karesh

Michael Karesh — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:16:11 +0000

I’ve been thinking of making at least some of the vehicle reliability data collected by TrueDelta available to anyone willing to crunch through it and share the results. This might be a way to do it.

By: miked98

miked98 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:41:23 +0000

Cool idea indeed. But in the many cases of interesting data (biological, demographic, macroeconomic) – the hard part isn’t making the data available, but making it accessible — e.g. in a format that analysts can easily use.

NIH has been maintaining Genbank, the world’s largest database of DNA sequences, since 1982. An entire ecosystem of bioinformatics software tools has been built around this — I’m hopeful same will soon occur in other data spaces.

By: Amazon Gets into the Public Data Sets Game | Data and the Web

Amazon Gets into the Public Data Sets Game | Data and the Web — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:35:16 +0000

[...] Amazon announced the launch of its Public Data Sets service this evening. Bottom line, they asked people for different public or non-proprietary data sets and they got ‘em. Here’s a sample of the (pretty hefty) stuff they are hosting for free: [...]

By: Amazon launches Public Data Sets web service | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:30:39 +0000

[...] releases its Public Data Sets web service today encouraging developers, researchers, universities and businesses alike to upload large data sets to [...]

By: David Evans

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:19:59 +0000

Whatever happened to Freebase? I thought they were going to lock this market up but seems to have stalled.

By: Forrest Zeisler

Forrest Zeisler — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:26:12 +0000

I finance works in a genetics lab. The are trying to maintain a public database on their own. This service would be perfect for them.

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By: Tolgahan Zeybek

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:41:09 +0000

very good

By: Tan The Man

Tan The Man — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:25:57 +0000

I’m surprised Google doesn’t have something like this… Makes data gathering much easier…