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Colors | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
Radiolab rips the rainbow a new one.
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#209: GitHub and Google on Public Datasets and BigQuery - Changelog
This week’s show was produced in collaboration with GitHub and Google to announce a big expansion to GitHub’s public dataset on BigQuery.
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We talked with Arfon Smith (GitHub), Felipe Hoffa (Google), and Will Curran (Google) about BigQuery, the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration between the two companies to expand GitHub’s public dataset, adding query capabilities that have never been possible before, example queries, and more!
Special thanks to Brandon Keepers for helping us put this show together!
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Show notes and links
Arfon Smith on GitHub
Felipe Hoffa on Twitter
Will Curran on LinkedIn
#144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya Grigorik
GitHub announcement
Google Cloud Blog announcement
Google Open Source Blog announcement
Felipe Hoffa – GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code
GitHub public dataset – This 3TB+ dataset comprises the largest released source of GitHub activity to date. It contains a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories including more than 145 million unique commits, over 2 billion different file paths, and the contents of the latest revision for 163 million files, all of which are searchable with regular expressions.
NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data
USA Name Data
Google BigQuery
Gist: BigQuery Examples from Arfon Smith
Shawn Pearce (Google) – The unsung hero at Google who did all the hard work getting the data pipeline working for this new dataset
Email bq-public-data@google.com to talk with Will and BigQuery’s public dataset team
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Digital librarian and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Radio New Zealand
Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to all knowledge, and digital librarian. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library that provides free public access to collections of digitised materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.