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Google’s new search engine reveals public datasets for research and journalism projects

Sep06
by on September 6, 2018 at 5:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider


Google has launched a dedicated dataset search website to help journalists and researchers unearth publicly available data that can aid in their projects. Traditionally, researchers have relied on sources like the World Bank, NASA, and ProPublica or search engines like Kaggle. This new tool will make their work much easier. The website takes Google’s familiar approach and design for search and applies it to datasets published across the web. So if you need to look at historical weather trends, you can use a simple query like “daily weather” to begin your research. Plus, the engine supports shortcuts that work on Google’s regular…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Google’s new search engine reveals public datasets for research and journalism projects

Sep06
by on September 6, 2018 at 5:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider


Google has launched a dedicated dataset search website to help journalists and researchers unearth publicly available data that can aid in their projects. Traditionally, researchers have relied on sources like the World Bank, NASA, and ProPublica or search engines like Kaggle. This new tool will make their work much easier. The website takes Google’s familiar approach and design for search and applies it to datasets published across the web. So if you need to look at historical weather trends, you can use a simple query like “daily weather” to begin your research. Plus, the engine supports shortcuts that work on Google’s regular…

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Twitter CEO’s comments will ignite the right, context be damned

Sep06
by on September 6, 2018 at 1:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion, Social Media


Stripped of context, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s comments sound a bit like an admission. Speaking to members of congress, Dorsey told a room full of senators that Twitter “unfairly” reduced the visibility of more than 600,000 accounts recently. A quote that, in just days, will serve as bulletin board fodder that whips conservative constituents into a fundraising frenzy for the upcoming midterms. It’s context, though, that matters. Dorsey’s broader sentiment was that he and his team made some mistakes in testing an algorithmic way to surface relevant content via a new quality filter. As a result of those mistakes, some…

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