Huge datasets
Looking for big huge datasets to play with? Peter Skomoroch maintains a delicious bookmark on datasets which he’s been updating since 2007. From NCDC weather data, to wikipedia traffic dumps, to amazon public datasets — you’ll certainly find something interesting there.
With cheap computing power easily available for hire, crunching huge datasets isn’t limited to just big [...]
Meet Windows Azure: Microsoft’s cloud services platform
The next big thing in computing we are hearing these days is “cloud computing“. Every computing infrastructure vendor is announcing their range of “cloud services” offerings, or is charting their strategy to offer one. A couple of days back at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft announced their plans about Windows Azure - An internet [...]