Microsoft’s Move To Launch ‘Research Open Data’ Is A Revolutionary Way To Compete With Google And AWS - Analytics India Magazine

"As companies rush to embrace the open source ecosystem, mainstream enterprises like Google and Microsoft are jumping on to this wave. Dubbed as an excellent open data effort by one of the leading cloud providers, Microsoft is striving hard to gain developer and community trust by embracing the open data movement. Earlier last week, Microsoft’s director of Data Science Outreach, Vani Mandava wrote about launching Microsoft Research Open Data – a cloud data repository. They plan for it to be an excellent collection of free datasets to push state-of-the-art research in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and domain-specific sciences. The datasets are available in several categories like: Biology..."