TIGER in the (Amazon) Cloud
Brady at O’Reilly Radar explains how Development Seed has basically placed all the TIGER data (140 Gb of shape files) into an Amaon’s Elastic Block Storage (a virtual hard drive), that can be mounted to an EC2 instance (an Amazon virtual machine).
I don’t pretend to understand the underlying tech, but from what I read at the Development Seed blog, TIGER data is in the cloud, so go use it! There’s census data, too stored as a public dataset, too. Amazon offers this primer on public data sets.
Amazon will take some change from you when you work with the data, so they have a vested reason to keep it available.
via @timoreilly
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/01 at 06:00 AM |
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