Data and code open sourced from Google's Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal project

Posted by Ross Koningstein, Engineer, Google RE<C team Cross-posted with the Open Source at Google BlogGoogle’s RE<C renewable energy research project has recently open sourced a new tool and a significant amount of data to support future CSP (concentrating solar power) heliostat development.HOpS Open Source SiteHOpS, heliostat optical simulation, is an open source software tool for accurately and efficiently performing optical simulations...

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Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University

Posted by John Taylor and Kevin SerafiniIn May 2009 we launched Google Sky Map: our “window on the sky” for Android phones. Created by half a dozen Googlers at the Pittsburgh office in our 20% time, the app was designed to show off the amazing capabilities of the sensors in the first generation Android phones. Mostly, however, we wrote it because we love astronomy. And, thanks to Android’s broad reach, we have managed to share this passion with over 20 million Android users as well as with our local community at events such as the Urban Sky Party.Today,...

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CDC Birth Vital Statistics in BigQuery

Posted by Dan Vanderkam, Software Engineer Google’s BigQuery Service lets enterprises and developers crunch large-scale data sets quickly. But what if you don’t have a large-scale data set of your own?To help the data-less masses, BigQuery offers several large, public data sets. One of these is the natality data set, which records information about live births in the United States. The data is derived from the Division of Vital Statistics at the...

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Google Correlate expands to 49 additional countries

Posted by Matt Mohebbi, Software Engineer In May of this year we launched Google Correlate on Google Labs. This system enables a correlation search between a user-provided time series and millions of time series of Google search traffic. Since our initial launch, we've graduated to Google Trends and we've seen a number of great applications of Correlate in several domains, including economics (consumer spending, unemployment rate and housing inventory),...

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