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Precisely, this is why I think open data should be the next battle. All code takes input and gives output. I don't mind closed source as long as the interfaces
by foobar_ 6y ago
Precisely, this is why I think open data should be the next battle. All code takes input and gives output. I don't mind closed source as long as the interfaces are open ... but data being bought and sold is really troubling. Apart from public data sets, most data sets are closed. I am not sure if there are companies that publish all the data they collected openly.
- pabs3 6y agoThe data issue is that it most of it shouldn't be collected in the first place, not that it should be public.
- foobar_ 6y agoWell thats a chicken and egg problem in a way. Without data you can't build some types of software. I think you have three types of data. 1. Private data / Linked Data This is the data contributed by the user. Shopping data for example. I think the EU data laws are meant to guard this. I think it is both unethical and illegal to sell / publish primary data without the user's consent. 2. Public data In social networks you also get interaction data, which the user had made public. I don't see any reason for companies not to publish this. Right now people use crawling to get this data. 3. Insights This is the data generated by ML and statistical analytics. By open data I mean user should be able to get a dump of all three and the organisation should? publish 2 openly and 3 if it wants to openly as well. Also see: http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000810.html http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000810.html