[2b2k][eim] Needlebase going? Nooo! We need le base!
Posted on:: January 22nd, 2012
Google has announced that it is retiring Needlebase, a service it acquired with its ITA purchase. That’s too bad! Needlebase is a very cool tool. (It’s staying up until June 1 so you can download any work you’ve done there.)
Needlebase is a browser-based tool that creates a merged, cleaned, de-duped database from databases. Then you can create a variety of user-happy outputs. There are some examples here.
Google says it’s evaluating whether Needlebase can be threaded into its other offerings.
Categories: everythingIsMiscellaneous, too big to know dw
I agree; Needlebase provides unique features that are hard or impossible withthe likes of Scraperwiki or even Google Refine.
I can imagine some of Needle’s machine learning capabilities being rolled into Refine, but they are really apples and oranges…
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