[DDI-SRG] Amazon Public Datasets

[Pascal Heus]

I-Lin:
For the Matlab and Mathematica, I assume you just need to attach the
relevant snapshot to your virtual machine (AMI).

Mathematica:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/mathematica-on-amazon-ec2.html

Matlab:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/parallel-comput.html
http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html

Would be nice to see SPSS, SAS, Stata or R provide pre-configured AMI's.

FYI, I use the Elastifox plugin for Firefox to manage the machine,
volumes and snapshots.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609

best
*P


I-Lin Kuo wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Pascal Heus <pascal.heus at gmail.com
> <mailto:pascal.heus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I-Lin:
>     thanks for pointing this out. I've just tried and successfully
>     accessed the census 2000 public data. Note that you need an Amazon
>     account and run a virtual machine on their cloud infrastructure.
>     This is not particularly expensive (as low as $.10/hour) but is
>     not trivial for the casual user.
>     Nonetheless, this is a very interesting development.
>
>
> It may get to be trivial. Mathematica and MATLAB now have the ability
> to compute on the cloud, but I haven't seen any mention that they can
> also access Amazon Public Datasets
>
> http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/mathematica-on-amazon-ec2.html
> http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/parallel-comput.html
>  
>
>
>     I think this could also be an opportunity to approach Amazon and
>     educate them (and potentially the underlying data providers) about
>     metadata practices. This could be a good marketing channel for DDI
>     (like if Amazon could point  to the standard as a best practice).
>     I'll be exploring this more through ODaF and other projects I'm
>     involved with.
>
>
> I agree that it's a golden opportunity. It seems to me that one of the
> major barrier to having the cloud instances access the APD's in an
> automated fashion is the lack of metadata describing the structure of
> the variables in the dataset.
>  
>
>
>     best
>     Pascal
>
>     I-Lin Kuo wrote:
>>     FYI: This might be of interest to the group
>>
>>     http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/12/paging-researchers-analysts-and-developers.html
>>
>>     -- 
>>     I-Lin Kuo
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