Nearly three years ago, I complained bitterly about the demise of Windows Datamarket, which aimed to provide free, stock datasets for any and every purpose. I was a huge fan of the date dimension and the geography dimension, since they really helped me to get started with data warehousing.
So I’m glad to say that the concept is back, revamped and rebuilt for the data scientists today. Azure Open Datasets will be useful to anyone who wants data for any reason: perhaps for learning, for demos, for improving machine learning accuracy, perhaps.
The purpose of Azure Open Datasets is to save data scientists time and increase productivity by saving the time normally spent on both data discovery and
preparation.
Azure Open Datasets is available in preview, so why not take a look? Datasets are cohosted with cloud compute in Azure making access and manipulation easier. They are contained in Notebooks, which is even better!
To learn more, join my Build session on Wednesday 8th May at 2pm in the Sheraton Grand Ballroom D. I’ll show you how it works.
Please head over and give it a try. I’m happy to see the concept is back.
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