Microsoft Launches a New Repository Featuring Open Data From Microsoft Research
From Microsoft Research:
Today we are excited to launch Microsoft Research Open Data – a new data repository in the cloud dedicated to facilitating collaboration across the global research community. Microsoft Research Open Data, in a single, convenient, cloud-hosted location, offers datasets representing many years of data curation and research efforts by Microsoft that were used in published research studies.
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Datasets in Microsoft Research Open Data are categorized by their primary research area, as shown in Figure 4. You can find links to research projects or publications with the dataset.
15 categories are listed including Biology, Chemistry, Education, Information Science, and Social Science.
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