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New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia

by crescendo on 2/24/09, 10:20 PM with 2 comments

• by anuraggoel on 2/25/09, 5:25 AM

  If like me you're wondering how you could use some of the new datasets, here are some pointers:

  http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/featured_application

  http://wiki.dbpedia.org/UseCases

  Highlight: Powerset - semantic wikipedia/freebase search acquired by MSFT for $100mm

• by vaksel on 2/25/09, 2:42 AM

  most of it seems to be pretty useless, but there is quiet a bit of good stuff too