Infochimps, the Gathering (of Structured Big Data)
Siliconangle, by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins, Mar 17, 2011
One of the more interesting conversations I had at SxSW was the with Nick Ducoff of Austin-based
Infochimps. Those of you interested in the trends in big data are likely well aware the company - they're in the business of curating, housing and providing API access to large data sets, and at the festival, they announced the launch of over 2000 new data sets, an amazing feat in and of itself.
Additionally, they announced the debut of the API explorer, a vehicle for getting an immediate understanding sans-documentation of how each API functions.
The datasets aren't particularly obscure, either. Nick showed me a number of the staff favorites from the new debut, including a database of all MLB statistics, which contains "a record of major league games played from 1871-2008."
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