TORONTO, ON – ThinkData Works, Inc. (ThinkData) has announced a partnership with the Vector Institute (Vector) that will provide Vector AI researchers and partners with a platform for fundamental and applied AI research.
“There is a lot of potential to apply AI techniques to gain insight and create new business solutions using publicly available data,” says Bryan Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of ThinkData. “Researchers and developers end up spending more time searching, cleansing, and processing data than they spend building solutions and analyzing results. Through this partnership, we’re providing a platform that takes care of the not-so-fun part of working with data, enabling Vector researchers and partners to focus all of their efforts on advancing their research.”
ThinkData’s platform, Namara, hosts one of the largest repositories of publicly available open data in the world, providing standard access to hundreds of thousands of data sets released by providers ranging from governments and not-for-profits to large companies and startups. Vector’s partnership with ThinkData Works will launch this month with an initial focus on providing Vector researchers with new streams of public data.
Vector and ThinkData also plan on developing a private deployment of the Namara platform exclusively for Vector researchers and partner companies to facilitate research collaboration and joint solution development.
“Vector is one of the largest communities of researchers in the world who are at the leading edge of deep learning and machine learning research and development,” says Dr. Garth Gibson, President and CEO of the Vector Institute. “Our partnership with ThinkData Works will enable us to work with our partners to advance AI research and drive its application, adoption and commercialization across Canada.”
The platform will enhance Vector’s ability to work with partners on research and resources that could also be made available to the broader market to benefit whole industries through ThinkData’s public Namara platform.
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About ThinkData Works
Founded in 2014, ThinkData Works focuses on the aggregation and modification of large data sets, enabling businesses to create new products and insights. The platform is designed to access high value data in standard usable formats.
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About the Vector Institute
The Vector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), excelling in machine and deep learning. Their vision is to drive excellence and leadership in Canada’s knowledge, creation, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) to foster economic growth and improve the lives of Canadians.