Open Data Campaign

Microsoft talk about closing the data divide and the need for open data.  Thus helping remove barriers to data innovation. The data divide progress report on can be read here

Microsoft launched five data collaboration principles in connection with this. 

Open: We will work to make data relevant to important social problems as open as possible, including by contributing open data ourselves.

Usable: We will invest in creating new technologies and tools, governance mechanisms, and policies to make data more usable for everyone

 

Empowering: We will help organizations generate value from their data according to their choices and develop their AI talent to use data effectively and independently

Secure: We will employ security controls to ensure data collaboration is operationally secure where it is desired.

Private: We will help organizations protect individuals’ privacy in data sharing collaborations that involve personally identifiable information

Google AI training data set

Google has released an AI training data set with 5 million images and 200,000 landmarks. The open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2 contains a larger landmark recognition corpus. Google has also launched two new challenges Landmark Recognition 2019 and Landmark Retrieval 2019 on Kaggle.

Azure Open Datasets

Azure Open Datasets are curated public datasets that can be used to add scenario-specific features to machine learning solutions for more accurate models. Open Datasets are on Microsoft Azure and are available to Azure Databricks, Machine Learning service, and Machine Learning Studio. Access to the datasets is through the APIs and other products, such as Power BI and Azure Data Factory.

Open Data Initiative

At Microsoft Ignite a groundbreaking partnership was announced with a new vision for renewable data and intelligent applications. It is a jointly developed vision by Adobe, Microsoft, and SAP to deliver unparalleled business insight from your behavioral, transactional, financial, and operational data. It provides a single view of data built on one data model, artificial intelligence driven insights and an open extensible platform.

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Announcing the Open Data Initiative