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Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by akshaynathr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:03PM (#13474394)
Hi everyone, While working on some of my projects involving Machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks i have found that there is a lack of training data sets in many areas. Also many of them are scattered throughout web, some are extremely huge for an individual to process etc.So i thought of this idea of having a marketplace for data ,structured for machine learning communities. It can be a one stop place for researchers, scientists, students,data analysts etc.Looking for some valuable opinions.
Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by bijection on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:16PM (#13474525)
It looks like your page is down, possibly due to HN load.
Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by joe_the_user on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:31PM (#13477921)
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 such a thing would restrict any users much more than you'd realize - sharing one's results would become a trickier matter just for one. Deciding if the data is good would be another thing since being able to sell stuff produces an incentive for uploading garbage.

Just as much, huge datasets are effectively going to be the product of many people's data. If some entity decides it's going to profit from that, how do the profits get divided, especially if there's no protocols for that division.

For example, should someone be able to sell my chest X-rays if I haven't agreed to it? A lot of large companies with big data sets would face far more issues if they were to be selling those. And considerations go on and on and on.

The free-wheel, free-sharing quality of present day machine has been a driving force in its progress and it would be a shame for that to go away. As can be seen with the Internet, freely available data can be incredible force and hopefully data will remain freely available.

Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by nerdponx on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:54PM (#13474867)
Are you familiar with the UCI repository? https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html
Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by akshaynathr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:05PM (#13474960)
Yeah. I was thinking of a crowdsourced marketplace platform which follows a particular standard so all dataset supports major ML platforms, API support for programming languages for preprocessing huge datasets etc.People can prepare and sell /buy datasets. This can bring people from various streams together to solve really major issues using the data.
Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by huac on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:38PM (#13475795)
what is a 'particular standard for data'
Re:Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning da... by akshaynathr on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:53PM (#13475961)
Many datasets available online does not clearly tell the quality of data. So I think, having a particular standard of quality can really help.