Big data - Providers - Introduction
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Where to find data
With the growth of both the open data movement and data marketplaces, there's now a wealth of public data - some free, some for sale - that you can use in your analyses and applications. It's not just about data dumps: increasingly you can get data through APIs, or even execute it on servers provided by the data host.
The Emerging Field of Data Markets – our competitive landscape
One of the most common questions we’ve gotten since our international launch is “How is DataMarket different from X?”, where X is pretty much any of the companies or solutions mentioned below.
Following up on the Data-as-a-Service categorization posts , here’s a list of companies defined as data markets, with a little extra information on their status and how they’re described in their own words:
A list of data markets
Six weeks ago I wrote a blog post with some market definitions and categorization of startups and initiatives in the emerging field of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS).
Data-as-a-Service: Market Definitions – revisited
Data-as-a-Service: Market Definitions
Updated Dec 4th and 5th, 2010: Revisited and updated the list based on new insights and activities.Data markets aren't coming. They're already here
Jud Valeski ( @jvaleski ) is cofounder and CEO of Gnip , a social media data provider that aggregates feeds from sites like Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , delicious , and others into one API.
