by Angela Guess Kay Ewbank reports in I-Programmer, “Thirteen Terabytes of anonymized user-news item interaction data has been made available for developers to use in machine learning applications. This is the largest ever set of data to be made available for general use. It began life as user-news interaction data, collected by recording the user-news […]
Embracing Open Data in the World of Research
by Angela Guess Virginia Gewin recently wrote in Nature.com, “It is a movement building steady momentum: a call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent. A spirit of openness is gaining traction in the science community, and is the only way, say advocates, to address a ‘crisis’ in science […]
The Treasure Trove That Is NASA’s Public Data Archives
by Angela Guess Emily Lakdawalla recently wrote in Planetary.org, “One of the great things about NASA is that all the data returned from all of the missions all over the solar system belong to you, the public. A good chunk of what I write about at this blog depends upon NASA’s public data archives, the […]