Google, gapminder and scientific data sets

I always love it when multiple threads blogged about in days past collide. A Wired article from earlier today reports that research.google.com will soon provide a home for all that scientific data that we have talked about earlier. That part is not a surprise since it had been alluded to at Scifoo.

Now for that moment of confluence. The new site will be offering algorithm to mine and analyze the information, building about the absolutely brilliant Trendalyzer technology acquired from the Gapminder project. I continue to think that Gapminder is simply amazing and wonder why that paradigm is not used more often. The news couldn’t have come sooner. I had a post in my drafts asking what Google was planning to do with their acquisition. This answers that question, although I am sure there are other applications that we haven’t heard about, including some potential internal business intelligence ones.

For more on Google and it’s data efforts, keep tabs on Attila’s blog, included his post on the promiscuous distribution of large datasets

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