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Home › Forums › Open Discussion |> Data Commons is using AI to make the world’s public data more accessible and helpfulEvery moment, all around the world, governments, organizations, and many others are generating data on topics as widely varied as temperature, trade or rates of disease. It’s data that could be extraordinarily useful to understanding and addressing major societal challenges like climate change, hunger or epidemics. Fortunately, much of this data is publicly available, with more to come. Unfortunately, being publicly available is not the same as being easy to access and use. This is the gap that Data Commons, an initiative from Google, is working to bridge. Data is often fragmented by state and country borders, collected and published by different agencies, research institutions and other non-governmental organizations, and shared in different formats on varying timelines. It can be difficult, time consuming, and cost prohibitive to make these public data sets work together in a way that’s useful to policymakers, researchers, nonprofit organizations, journalists, students and members of the general public trying to better understand societal issues and find solutions. Data Commons’ long-term vision is to do for publicly available data what Google Search does for the internet or Google Maps does for navigation – organize it and make it accessible and use › Open Discussion

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