Mastering .NET Machine Learning

Open data

One of the most exciting civic movements that align with Big Data and Machine Learning is Open Data. Although there is not as much buzz around it, it's a very exciting and important transformation in data science. The premise of open data is that local, state, and national governments will become much more accountable and efficient if they expose the public data that they currently maintain in a RESTful format. Currently, most government agencies might have paper records, charge a significant sum to output an ad-hoc query, or occasionally have an FTP site with some .xls or .pdf files that get refreshed from time to time. Open Data is a movement that takes the same, if not more, data and places it on a web service that can be consumed ...