Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Amazon advancing civilization

Amazon had taken the extraordinary step of making one terabyte of data available to developers in CSV format. What kind of data? It begins with all publicly available DNA sequences (including the Human Genome), huge amounts of chemistry data, machine readable encyclopedic entries about millions of different topics, and an entire dump of Wikipedia, US Census data, and data from the US Department of Transportation. More detail on the datasets here.
What will brilliant minds do with this data? The research possibilities are endless..

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