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I'm the author of this piece. would really appreciate your thoughts and comments. I’d love to learn about other datasets that could really change the trajectory of society if made accessible. Also would love to read a counter-argument to this.

+10 to this comment. linking data is simple in theory but extremely hard in practice.

thx -- really appreciate it. it took me six months to write so I am glad it was helpful. just added comments on the bottom of the post if you want to ask any questions: https://www.safegraph.com/blog/data-as-a-service-bible-every...

this is actually a really good idea! really impressive what you built in a short time.

Random -- but Placekey also has a theme song (and it is pretty good). More open projects should have a theme song.

check out the Placekey theme song ("Placekey open the world") on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-417054017/placekeyparty/s-MI62Sf...

I'm one of the authors of this (along with Will Landing, CEO of FICO). would really appreciate your comments. I've been getting a lot of comments about good examples of standards that we forgot to include -- please list them here and I will update the piece.

played around with this. well done!

We've been using the Requestbin alpha for a few weeks and have found it valuable for us. Interested in other people's thoughts on this.

In this piece he goes into the status game that so many of us play and why you should be opting for another game (wealth) instead.

agreed Andrew. We we need to democratize access to data. Of course, that does not mean that the underlying data needs to free. It can be expensive. But the data needs to be available.

If you are a self-driving car start-up today with $120MM in funding, you still have no data on how humans drive or how pedestrians walk. That's something that is going to be really important. And Apple and Google (both working also on self-driving cars) have a massive amount of data on drivers.

Put something together here: https://medium.com/safegraph/where-should-machines-go-to-lea...