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New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia (aws.typepad.com)
40 points by crescendo on Feb 24, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


If like me you're wondering how you could use some of the new datasets, here are some pointers:

http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/featured_application

http://wiki.dbpedia.org/UseCases

Highlight: Powerset - semantic wikipedia/freebase search acquired by MSFT for $100mm


most of it seems to be pretty useless, but there is quiet a bit of good stuff too




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