Responsible AI for Developers Blog: 2022

Open Buildings Dataset: Sampling a Large Geospatial Dataset Using Pandas, S2 Geometry and Apache Beam

December 22, 2022

Posted by Oscar Wahltinez, Developer Programs Engineer

In a previous blog post, we introduced the Open Buildings dataset and covered how to download it using a couple of different options. Here, we'll cover how to sample the dataset using different techniques and what biases are associated with those samples.

Open Buildings Dataset: Downloading the Data

November 18, 2022

Posted by Oscar Wahltinez, Developer Programs Engineer

Earlier this year, we announced the release of the Open Buildings dataset: a dataset of building footprints to support social good applications. And just a few weeks ago, we announced an update increasing the dataset coverage. This blog post will cover how to access this dataset for your own use cases.

GoEmotions Dataset: Training a Classifier

November 18, 2022

Posted by Oscar Wahltinez, Developer Programs Engineer

Last year, we announced the release of the GoEmotions dataset. In this blog post, we'll cover how the data can be downloaded, and how a simple model can be trained to classify fine-grained emotions given a piece of text.

COVID-19 Open Data Updates

November 18, 2022

Posted by Oscar Wahltinez, Developer Programs Engineer

It's been over two years since the COVID-19 Open Data repository launched. The world has changed a lot since then, and the purpose of the repository has changed, too.