Searching for Datasets with Google

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, 1:11 a.m.

b'If you wanted to find a dataset of jokes, how would you do it? What about a dataset of podcast episodes? If your answer was \\u201cI\\u2019d try Google,\\u201d you might have been disappointed\\u2014Google is a great search engine for many types of web data, but it didn\\u2019t have any special tools to navigate the particular challenges of, well, dataset data. But all that is different now: Google recently announced Google Dataset Search, an effort to unify metadata tagging around datasets and complementary efforts on the search side to recognize and organize datasets in a way that\\u2019s useful and intuitive. So whether you\\u2019re an academic looking for an economics or physics or biology dataset, or a big old nerd modeling jokes or analyzing podcasts, there\\u2019s an exciting new way for you to find data.'