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Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style?

Posted by simoniker on from the welcome-to-the-pirate-age dept.

jason0000042 writes "The BBC is reporting on Cliwoc, the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans, which pulls data about climate change from 18th and 19th Century sailing ships' logbooks. It's like a window in time that could help us better understand global climate change, if they can decipher the olde timey language of the 1750's. Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age."

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  1. Just once... by neilmoore67 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How about just once nobody leaves a single comment?

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