Strata describes the process Facebook recently went through to move 30 petabytes of Hadoop data from one data center to another.
Jul 28
The raw global temperature data set from the World Meteorological Organization is now available for download. BBC article.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
