Datapie

Data

dataset marketplace

SHOW HN2017

126points
40comments
#333of 2,242 in 2017
Top 15%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.

Idea: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Dataset quality and licensing concerns are real problems the idea could address

    From 2 comments
    • There are a few services popping up with aim to provide data repositories for analysis/ML (Kaggle, data.world, /r/datasets) As someone who likes making analyses from random…
      minimaxir on HN
    • I’m one of the cofounders at data.world and you definitely make good points… We encourage all users to post a license with their datasets but, like open source, not everyone will…
      jonloyens on HN

Objections

  • Distribution rights and ethical sourcing of datasets are unclear

    From 2 comments
    • There are a few services popping up with aim to provide data repositories for analysis/ML (Kaggle, data.world, /r/datasets) As someone who likes making analyses from random…
      minimaxir on HN
    • Is there actual case law that prohibits the use of copyrighted material for corpora and other training data? Sure distribution can have issues, but do you have any references for…
      whyileft on HN
  • Dataset quality is not indicated

    From 1 comment
    • There are a few services popping up with aim to provide data repositories for analysis/ML (Kaggle, data.world, /r/datasets) As someone who likes making analyses from random…
      minimaxir on HN
  • Selling data creates incentives for garbage uploads and privacy problems

    From 2 comments
    • I don't think you can make this work because even a fairly small cost for data produces all sorts of problems. You would have to distribute all these datasets with a license and…
      joe_the_user on HN
    • I think the idea is great but you should think about this sentence: "Buy and sell your data like Ebay" next to an image of connected people. It looks like you're a shady user…
      hazelnut on HN
  • Site was down under HN load

    From 2 comments

Requests

  • Make the platform more general than ML dataset sharing

    From 1 comment
    • Sounds nice. Could you consider to make it more general than sharing datasets for ML? I mean, it sounds like a really generic solution that anyone could benefit from, not just…
      amelius on HN
  • Add a ranking or feedback system for datasets and users

    From 1 comment
    • Will you make a ranking system for noting user and dataset ? I recommand using true skill for noting user and dataset. Keep up the good job.
      bussiere on HN

Questions

  • What problem is being solved for researchers, given bandwidth and GPU access

    From 1 comment
    • Could you explain what problem you're trying to solve here? Are there really that many researchers who have access to modern (and expensive) GPU hardware that don't have…
      Cacti on HN
  • What standard for data quality is meant

    From 1 comment
    • what is a 'particular standard for data'
      huac on HN
  • How does this differ from existing marketplaces and IBM offerings

    From 1 comment
    • also, how does this fit with... """ Datapie offers data analysis without downloading the data. This means you need not download the massive data. No need to have massive…
      verdverm on HN

Alternatives named

  • Kaggle, data.world and Google BigQuery public datasets

    From 1 comment
    • There are a few services popping up with aim to provide data repositories for analysis/ML (Kaggle, data.world, /r/datasets) As someone who likes making analyses from random…
      minimaxir on HN
  • UCI machine learning repository

    From 1 comment
    • Are you familiar with the UCI repository? https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html
      nerdponx on HN
  • Infochimps data marketplace

    From 1 comment
    • I swear this is what Infochimps used to be, but now I don't really see a reference to it on their website. Except for a 404 when I click on "Resources" -> "Data Marketplace"[1].…
      pgroves on HN
  • Academic Torrents

    From 1 comment
    • link seems broken to me, but here is something that i know: http://academictorrents.com/
      ungaro on HN

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