With the launch of our new marketplace yesterday we introduced a number of exciting new datasets – both public and commercial! Check out some of the great new data we have:

• 5 Offerings from Alteryx – Demographic, Expenditure, Geography and Map Data
• 19 Offerings from UN – International Statistics Data
• 6 Offerings from STATS – Sports Statistics
• 2 Offerings from Weather Central – Weather Forecast and Imagery
• 1 Offering from WeatherBug – Historical Weather Observations
• 3 Offerings from Zillow – Home Valuation, Mortgage Information and Neighborhood Data
• 1 Offering from Melissa Data – US Zip code Data
• 2 Offerings from Modul1 – Swedish Education and Unemployment Statistics
• 1 Offering from CDYNE – US National Death Index
• 2 Offering from Data.gov – US Crime and Recovery Data
• 1 Offering from EEA – European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
• 1 Offering from places.sg  - Places of Interest in Singapore
• 1 Offering from Wolfram Alpha – Answers to questions from fitness to food, math and medicine among others
• 1 Offering from XeBral – Japanese public company financial and statistical data

We also announced a list of datasets that you can expect to see soon (You can read more about them on DataMarket, but note the blue Coming Soon logo on the right of the page)

• Gregg London Consulting  – UPC Data (13 Offerings)
• InfoChimps – Twitter and Web Statistics (2 Offerings)
• StrikeIron – Address Verification and Sales and Use Tax Data (2 Offerings)
• Acxiom – Consumer Statistics (1 Offering)
• Boundary Solutions – US Parcel Location, Images and Reports (3 Offerings)
• Digital Map Products – US National Parcel Boundary Data (1 Offering)
• ESRI – US Key Demographic Data (1 Offering)
• Government of the United Kingdom – Travel Advisory Service (1 Offering)
• OnTerra – Transportation and Navigation Data (1 Offering)
• Practice Fusion – Medical Research Data (1 Offering)
• The Social Archive – Micro-Blog Data (1 Offering)
• Wolters Kluwer – Sales Tax Rates (1 Offering)
• World Bank – World Development Indicators (1 Offering)
• Xignite – Real-time and historical exchange rates (1 Offering)

As we post more datasets to the site we will be sure to update you here on our blog… and be sure to check the site regular to learn more about the latest data offerings.

Note: Access to commercial paid offerings will be rolled out to all DataMarket accounts by November 22, 2010.  In the meantime, if you would like to request early access to paid offerings for your account, you can find instructions here.

- The DataMarket Team

Today during his keynote at PDC’10, Bob Muglia announced the launch of Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket!

Originally announced under the name Microsoft Codename “Dallas”, DataMarket changes the way information is exchanged by offering a wide range of content from authoritative commercial & public sources in a single marketplace, making it easier to find and purchase the data that you need to power your applications and analytics.

DataMarket enables developers to access data as a service. DataMarket exposes OData API’s which can be leveraged by developers on any platform to build innovative applications. Developers can also use service references to these API’s in Visual studio, making it easy for developers to consume the datasets.

Information workers will now be able to make better data purchasing decisions using rich visualization on DataMarket. DataMarket connectivity from Excel and PowerPivot will enable information workers to perform better analytics by mashing up enterprise and industry data.

Today’s key announcements around DataMarket include:

• DataMarket has been released to web at http://datamarket.azure.com with a new user experience and many new datasets from leading content providers
• Excel Add-in for DataMarket is available for download at https://datamarket.azure.com/addin
• Updated PowerPivot with DataMarket connectivity is available at www.powerpivot.com.
• DataMarket is launching with 35+ content provider partners with content ranging from Demographic, geospatial, financial, retail, sports, weather, environmental and health care. Learn more at https://datamarket.azure.com/publishers
• Today we also announced some of our early adopter ISV/SI partners on DataMarket which include Accenture, SAS, Tableau, Dundas, Jackbe, Enroute, Sitecore, Pervasive, etc.

What do our Partners have to say?

How can you find out more?

• Explore available datasets at http://datamarket.azure.com
• Download Excel add-in for Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket.
• Learn more by watching DataMarket Videos
• Find us on Facebook
• Check out the DataMarket Developer Documentation
• Ask questions about DataMarket in the DataMarket Forum
• Current CTP3 Users: Learn more about transitioning from Project “Dallas” CTP3 to the new DataMarket release.