February 08 Feb 08
2019
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Seminar Series: Ramanathan V. Guha

DataCommons

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Publicly available data from open sources are a vital resource for students and researchers in a variety of disciplines. Unfortunately, processing these datasets to make them useful --- scraping, cleaning, normalizing, joining --- is tedious, error prone and has to repeated by every group.

DataCommons attempts to alleviate some of this pain by  synthesizing a single Knowledge Graph from many different data sources. It links references to the same entities (such as cities, counties, organizations, etc.) across different datasets to nodes on the graph, so that users can access data about a particular entity aggregated from different sources. Like the Web, the DataCommons graph  is open - any user can contribute data or build applications powered by the graph. We are jump-starting the graph with data from publicly available sources such as CDC, Census, BLS, FBI, etc. and are looking to engage with the academic community to take it further.

Location

Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320
291 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
USA

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Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room 320

291 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
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Speaker

Ramanathan V. Guha

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