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A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research
- abetusk 8y agoThis page has problems loading the datasets. Is it overloaded or just broken? Does anyone happen to know what licenses the various datasets are under?
- Insanity 8y agoCan confirm that I'm having the same issues, could be overloaded indeed.
- xinit 8y agoTurn off your ad blocker. Fixed it for me.
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- alokdhari 8y agoHow did you find that fix??! Just Curious..
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- SpuriousSignals 8y agoCtrl+shift+i in Chrome, Console, you may see something like "blocked by client".
- Insanity 8y agoThanks!
- pcurve 8y agoWow, 230GB celebrity photo dataset caught me off guard.
- ehsankia 8y agoIs it the one used in this paper? https://youtu.be/XOxxPcy5Gr4 https://youtu.be/XOxxPcy5Gr4
- endlessvoid94 8y agoI thought for SURE this would be a rickroll video. Pleasantly surprised.
- ct520 8y agoDude watching this video is how I imagine a bad acid trip to be
- lurquer 8y agoIt's worse. I think I damaged something in my brain by watching that...
- Theodores 8y agoThis took me down memory lane to what could be done in the 1990's with a regular PC/Amiga with one of those special framebuffer cards that could render a frame at a time to a Digibeta D1 video recorder for your typical acid house pop video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFAYIr8z2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFAYIr8z2I
- IanCal 8y agoOh great! On a similar note, does anyone know of a similar type of dataset/source (I'm expecting smaller) that's available for commercial use?
- jonhendry18 8y agoThere's also a 2.3 GB dataset of celebrity photos from the web.
- iamdave 8y agoI ask this not with snark but with fond(ish) memories, but does Microsoft providing open data like this make anyone else think of that Northwinds sample database that used to come with SQL Server? Not sure if it still does or not, as I'm in a different DB engine entirely these days, but I kind of grinned with a wee bit of nostalgia checking out this site thinking of that. I cut my teeth on that data set. Edit: Son of a gun they still offer it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/sql/linq/downloading-sample-databases https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adone...
- kerng 8y agoSQL Server ships something called Adventure Works since over a decade - same idea as Northwind but larger to also demo and play around with Analytivs and BI.
- AmericanChopper 8y agoAdventure Works, pffft... I’ll take Scott any day of the week.
- stevesimmons 8y agoThe Northwinds sample database predates SQL Server. I remember using it with Microsoft Access 1.0 back in 1993...
- iamdave 8y agoHeh, you probably read my post and thought "darn kids" to yourself, eh?
- petepete 8y agoAlso available in other flavours https://github.com/pthom/northwind_psql https://github.com/pthom/northwind_psql
- iamaelephant 8y agoAbsolutely nothing on this website works for me. Search gives an infinite spinner. Categories gives a blank page. What gives?
- threatofrain 8y agoFor me it was uBlocker Origin.
- _wmd 8y agoConfirmed uBlock causing it here too
- kfrzcode 8y agoDitto
- TheKIngofBelAir 8y agoAre you sure that the culprit here it's uBlock Origin itself and not your configuration/filter lists? I'm asking this because i've experienced similar problems with some pages and in most if not all cases it was the latter.
- rspeer 8y agoThey don't make it easy to find out what the Microsoft Research License Agreement is, when they put it behind a login wall on a site that doesn't work with ad-block. But this appears to be a copy of it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aditya/langid/msrla.txt http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aditya/langid/msrla.txt These license terms are a trap. Nobody should ever accept them. You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data should only be interesting to people who plan to be academics permanently, or who don't plan to succeed at anything they do with it. You can't even open-source anything you make out of it, because open source software does not restrict the purpose for which it's used. You can't combine it with data under any Creative Commons license except CC-By or CC-0, because its restrictions are definitely not Creative Commons compatible. The truly insulting part is that you have to give an unrestricted license back to Microsoft for everything you make out of this data. You can't benefit from what you make out of the data, but Microsoft can, with no limitations. Whatever you make from this data, you can't benefit from it. Most other people can't benefit from it. Microsoft can benefit from it, and if they want to, they can just take it without crediting you. This is like an artist being asked to do something "for the exposure", by someone who will just take it and give you no exposure.
- berti 8y ago"We're all in on open source." [1] Thanks for taking the effort to check. :) I believe this kind of attitude from MS is pretty problematic for Github. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-github-we-are-all-in-on-open-source.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...
- rspeer 8y agoWhile I find it awful that this particular department of Microsoft is offering "free data" with poisonous terms, I see no reason to believe it has anything to do with GitHub. Microsoft is a big place.
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- purplezooey 8y agoDo we really need more sample data sets
- maaaats 8y agoYes. I can't really fathom the snark here. Is providing this a bad thing?
- FaradayComplex 8y agoI think the commenter above you missed that it's not "sample data", but curated datasets for machine learning tasks, which we most certainly need more of.
- rspeer 8y agoWell. In this case it happens to be a bad thing, because you have to agree to a poisonous NDA to download this data. Providing actual free data would have been great though.
- florinutz 8y agostuck like this https://i.imgur.com/CiISBYY.png https://i.imgur.com/CiISBYY.png forever THANKS MICROSOFT
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- antoaravinth 8y agoWell if you are looking for a huge dataset, I would suggest stack overflow. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange I remember I wrote a node script to download all question and dump into my Postgres instance. It was fun, Postgres with an index could able to fetch results super fast How many answers for this question? How many questions are unanswered? With gin index, I could do a free text search as well.