Facebook has released its Open Compute Project, essentially open sourcing its hardware and data center specs, eWeek reports.

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More broadly, data science should also consider the degree to which open sourcing would increase both the amount and knowledge of its consumers.

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But when we dug into the data more closely we found that there was a huge discrepancy in the sourcing patterns between men and women journalists at NPR.

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Crowd-sourcing the analytics is quite a smart (and cheap) way for this big data company to create added value from its raw data.

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Sourcing what is available though social networks we can provide a lot of value by augmenting that data set.

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