Difference between revisions of "Annotated-directory-big-data"

Revision as of 11:23, 4 October 2011

This is an annotated directory of public, freely available, "large" data sets. For now they are in no particular order.

URL - http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets
Description - The ngram databases on which Google's ngram viewer is built. A variety of corpora are available, e.g. by language, the "Google Million", etc.
Curator - CharlieP

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 ==== Google ngrams ====
-* URL - http://books.google.com/
+* URL - http://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets
-* Description - Started in 2002, and based on work that Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page did as CS graduate students at Stanford, this ambitious project aims to digitize and make available the full contents of the world's books.  There is a detailed history of the long-running project and it's offshoots at http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/history.html
+* Description - The ngram databases on which Google's ngram viewer is built.  A variety of corpora are available, e.g. by language, the "Google Million", etc.
 * Curator - CharlieP