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What happens when the company changes direction? If there's a shift of priorities, an internal restructuring, a "strategic startup pivot", an acquisition? Not
by Radim 9y ago
What happens when the company changes direction? If there's a shift of priorities, an internal restructuring, a "strategic startup pivot", an acquisition?
Not to assume bad faith on Kaggle's part, but we got burned one too many times with private companies pushing their proprietary ("open") platforms for gobbling up data. The "it's free! just create an account — data lock-in — gap after project death/monetization" pattern leaves me a little cynical.
It's awesome that resources like these exist, but I'd be more comfortable paying attention if this was hosted as raw data somewhere (Github?), with a clear licensing and access model.
- benhamner 9y agoWe joined Google via acquisition one year ago, and Kaggle Datasets has grown from 450 datasets to over 13,000 in that timeframe. We are firmly committed to supporting and growing this platform.
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