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Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Spur Research

Posted by kdawson on from the put-it-there dept.

turnkeylinux writes "Amazon just launched its Public Data Sets service (home). The project encourages developers, researchers, universities, and businesses to upload large (non-confidential) data sets to Amazon — things like census data, genomes, etc. — and then let others integrate that data into their own AWS applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all of AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they consume with their own applications. Data sets already available include various US Census databases, 3-D chemical structures provided by Indiana University, and an annotated form of the Human Genome from Ensembl."

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  1. Finally! by jornak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I have somewhere I can store the index of my massive porn collection. Thanks, Amazon!

    1. Re:Finally! by dmbasso · · Score: 1, Funny

      Score:0, Funny... why the fuck people are so humorless nowdays? To take the time to mod down a funny post... why don't you spare your mod points to mod down the 'frist psots!!1!!!' that became usual?

      Btw, go ahead and mod me off-topic.

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  2. Patent pending... by owlnation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Expect a new slew of Amazon patents...

    "1-Sick" -- Health Data
    "1-Mick" -- Irish Census Data
    "1-Dick" -- Porn Movies Database
    "1-Lick" -- Lesbian Porn Movies Database
    "1-Fick" -- German Porn Movie Database
    "1-Hick" -- The George W. Bush Presidential Library catalog.
    "1-Kick" -- Pharmaceutical Index
    "1-Nick" -- Crime Data
    "1-Prick" -- Copyright Law Legal database
    "1-Trick" -- List of iKea-nu Reeves Movies.
    "1-Tick" -- Camping Places Data set.
    "1-Brick" -- The Lego Catalog.
    "1-Thick" -- Obesity Index.

  3. History repeats by sukotto · · Score: 2, Funny

    >users pay only for the compute and storage they
    >consume with their own applications

    Everything old is new again!
    Ah the good old days... when you had to PAY for cycles.... not like the young whippersnappers today with their "desktops" and "laptops" and more cycles than they know what to do with.

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  4. AOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wonder if AOL will be submitting any "non-confidential" data...