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Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by jongalloway2 »

rspeer wrote: post #14

They don't make it easy to find out what the Microsoft Research License Agreement is, when they put it behind a login wall on a site that doesn't work with ad-block. But this appears to be a copy of it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aditya/langid/msrla.txt These license terms are a trap. Nobody should ever accept them. You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data…

It's a different license. Here's a direct link to the Microsoft Research Data License Agreement (PDF): https://msrodr-api.azurewebsites.net//licenses/2f933be3-284d...

Disclaimer: I don't know if this affects your concerns, but it's at least the right license. Disclaimer 2: I work for Microsoft, but not for MSR, and don't know anything specific about this.

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by TheKIngofBelAir »

threatofrain wrote: post #10
iamaelephant wrote: post #9

Absolutely nothing on this website works for me. Search gives an infinite spinner. Categories gives a blank page. What gives?

For me it was uBlocker Origin.

Are you sure that the culprit here it's uBlock Origin itself and not your configuration/filter lists?

I'm asking this because i've experienced similar problems with some pages and in most if not all cases it was the latter.

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by rspeer »

jongalloway2 wrote: post #21
rspeer wrote: post #14

They don't make it easy to find out what the Microsoft Research License Agreement is, when they put it behind a login wall on a site that doesn't work with ad-block. But this appears to be a copy of it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aditya/langid/msrla.txt These license terms are a trap. Nobody should ever accept them. You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data…

It's a different license. Here's a direct link to the Microsoft Research Data License Agreement (PDF): https://msrodr-api.azurewebsites.net//licenses/2f933be3-284d... Disclaimer: I don't know if this affects your concerns, but it's at least the right license. Disclaimer 2: I work for Microsoft, but not for MSR, and don't know anything specific about this.

Thanks for the link. This version of the license has the same terms and then several more, including:

- If we accidentally gave you people's personal identifying information, it's your job to destroy it

- Your license to us is perpetual but our license to you terminates after 2 years (?!)

- The data is confidential and you may not talk about it for 5 years (OMG WTF)

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by rspeer »

berti wrote: post #17
rspeer wrote: post #14

They don't make it easy to find out what the Microsoft Research License Agreement is, when they put it behind a login wall on a site that doesn't work with ad-block. But this appears to be a copy of it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~aditya/langid/msrla.txt These license terms are a trap. Nobody should ever accept them. You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data…

"We're all in on open source." [1] Thanks for taking the effort to check. :) I believe this kind of attitude from MS is pretty problematic for Github. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...

While I find it awful that this particular department of Microsoft is offering "free data" with poisonous terms, I see no reason to believe it has anything to do with GitHub. Microsoft is a big place.

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by Theodores »

ehsankia wrote: post #7
pcurve wrote: post #5

Wow, 230GB celebrity photo dataset caught me off guard.

Is it the one used in this paper? https://youtu.be/XOxxPcy5Gr4

This took me down memory lane to what could be done in the 1990's with a regular PC/Amiga with one of those special framebuffer cards that could render a frame at a time to a Digibeta D1 video recorder for your typical acid house pop video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFAYIr8z2I

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by stevesimmons »

iamdave wrote: post #8

I ask this not with snark but with fond(ish) memories, but does Microsoft providing open data like this make anyone else think of that Northwinds sample database that used to come with SQL Server? Not sure if it still does or not, as I'm in a different DB engine entirely these days, but I kind of grinned with a wee bit of nostalgia checking out this site thinking of that. I cut my teeth on that data set. Edit: Son of…

The Northwinds sample database predates SQL Server. I remember using it with Microsoft Access 1.0 back in 1993...

Re: A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

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Post by petepete »

iamdave wrote: post #8

I ask this not with snark but with fond(ish) memories, but does Microsoft providing open data like this make anyone else think of that Northwinds sample database that used to come with SQL Server? Not sure if it still does or not, as I'm in a different DB engine entirely these days, but I kind of grinned with a wee bit of nostalgia checking out this site thinking of that. I cut my teeth on that data set. Edit: Son of…

Also available in other flavours

https://github.com/pthom/northwind_psql

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