Wired: Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

The following is an extract from Wired Magazine Blog. It may show some light on plans from Google regarding statistical data storage and visualisation of interest for the statistical community and official statistics:

By Alexis Madrigal January 18, 2008 | 2:23:21 PMCategories: Dataset, Research

Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but will debut soon.Building on the company’s acquisition of the data visualization technology, Trendalyzer, from the oft-lauded, TED presenting Gapminder team, Google will also be offering algorithms for the examination and probing of the information. The new site will have YouTube-style annotating and commenting features. More…….