Google and the UN Finally Discover Search

Google has partnered with the United Nations to launch the UN System Data Commons, an open platform designed to make sprawling global statistics searchable through natural language processing. Instead of clicking through endless bureaucratic PDFs, users can theoretically query complex demographic and economic datasets just like a normal search engine.

• Buries decades of fragmented global data inside a shiny new search wrapper.
• Promises natural language queries so bureaucrats can ask questions in plain English.
• Relies on the assumption that open data equals actual human comprehension.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Unless your job involves citing obscure demographic trends to justify meetings, this is just more noise for the data heap.

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