Jul 28

Strata describes the process Facebook recently went through to move 30 petabytes of Hadoop data from one data center to another.

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Jul 28

The raw global temperature data set from the World Meteorological Organization is now available for download. BBC article.

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Mar 16

Check out what LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman, has to say to say to Venture Beat about the new world of data. He lists off a few companies that he thinks are making good use of data.

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Feb 12

Scientists have estimated that to store the sum of all the world’s knowledge would take up 295 exabytes. Check out the BBC article.

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Sep 18

Here are some comments from Guy Kawasaki about how data is changing our lives. Also check out the original article from the Telegraph.

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Jul 29

Another reason to check in on your Facebook profile security settings… A security specialist at SkullSecurity.com has created a torrent containing the public data for 100+ million Facebook users and is widely distributing it. While there’s nothing wrong with this since all the info is public, it does cause one to thing about what can be done with all the information that many users are exposing. Check out the Techcrunch article.

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Sep 22

Boing Boing explains how Google is making it easier to get your data off the Google system an on to your own or to a competitor.

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Aug 19

San Francisco follows the federal government by allowing access to some of its data sets. DataSF.org is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. Here’s the Techcrunch article written by Mayor Gavin Newsom with all the details.

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Jun 09

Socrata.com is a new site that allows users to share public data sets and build a community around them.

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May 21

Today marks the official launch of Data.Gov, a website designed to share government information (economics, healthcare, environment, etc.) with citizens.

Here’s the official announcement from the White House Blog.

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