Questions tagged [historical]
For questions about historical data.
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Where can I find data for Formula 1 races and race cars
I am looking for dataset on the outcomes of Formula 1 races, what cars partook in the race, and the specifications of these cars (such as type of tire used; type of engine; width, length and other ...
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Number of Museums' visitors and ticket revenue
I am looking for details about Museums' visitors and revenue from tickets, in specific European Museums.
I made a simple Google research and couldn't find something useful. Only a couple of pages ...
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Is stock data available for bulk download for free?
Is it possible to download a dump of stock data?
I've seen the following:
Alternative to google finance api
Is there anywhere to get a free stockmark data feed/dump?
Quandl - seems only to offer ...
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Historical Oil Price Forecasts - MENA/West Africa Region
I am looking for historical crude oil price forecasts, ideally from 1970's - present.
I want to look at impacts of oil price expectations rather than real oil prices in the MENA (https://en.wikipedia....
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Raw housing stock of particular city
I want to get the raw number of units of housing stock that there is in a particular city in month X of year Y (even yearly data would be fine). This place shows yearly stock from 2010 onwards. Here ...
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How many people ever lived having a certain profession?
Is there any data on how many
politicians(including feudal lords)
clergy (priests, imams, monks ...)
scientists(whatever that may be called in ancient cultures)
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have ever lived on earth? (or in ...
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Where is the original data set for the "German tank problem"?
I am looking for the original data set for: the "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem" , but can't seem to find it.
Any suggestions on where it might be available from?
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Hotel internal historical data required
I am looking for hotel data to dig through.
What I need as historical information is:
Pricing
Room Capacity
Occupancy
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Is there an open geospatial dataset to resolve historical and modern places?
Given a documentary edition with settlements and regions spanning the American founding era--documents originating from and correspondences delivered to place names which may no longer exist--is there ...
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Historical US population by Age/Sex
I'm looking for US population data since 1900 (or earlier) with age and sex breakdowns. The data appears to be available from the US Census Bureau, but in may different text or Excel files, sometimes ...
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Historical Aerial Imagery of Ivory Coast
I'm looking for historical aerial imagery for Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire).
My first web searches have turned up nothing, but I know the French (and possibly the Soviets) created basemaps of the ...
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1945 (spring) daily weather Germany
Perhaps understandably, I am having difficulty tracking down daily weather data for Germany in early 1945.
My specific interest is in daily temps and any other daily weather observations for January ...
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Pictures of Black Bottom (Detroit neighborhood replaced with Lafayette Park in the 1960s)
I am looking for pictures of Black Bottom, a Detroit neighborhood demolished and replaced with Lafayette Park in the 1960s. It was the bithplace of the genre known as Detroit blues.
Landscapes, ...
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Datasets that input GPS and output historical time-series
I'm wondering what kind of historical time-series data I can get given GPS coordinates as input.
More than anything I'm interested in:
Temperature
Precipitation
Humidity
Irradiation
I'm largely ...
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Historical Mobile App Rankings/Downloads and Prices
I am a PhD student in Economics who is starting a new research project on the mobile app market. For this project, I would ideally need historical data on the rankings (or downloads), prices, and ...
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Look for sets of data of historical dates
I am looking for some sort of collection of significant historical dates. Things like:
4 July 1776, Signing of the Declaration of Independence
15 April 1912, Sinking of the RMS Titanic
Obviously, ...
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Pictures of sewing machines with date
I am looking for pictures of sewing machines.
It is important that each picture has a date associated (date of production of the machine, not date of the picture), so that I can sort the machines ...
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Stock market historical data
I was surprised not to find a similar question here. But what are the best sources of stock market daily (weekly, monthly) prices for all listed companies in a given market?
Google Finance, Yahoo ...
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Historical monthly farm/agricultural data 1950 to the present
I would like to find machine readable monthly data going back to at least 1950 relating to farming and agriculture.
Of particular interest are
commodity prices for core commodities: corn, wheat, beef ...
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Reusable pictures of Chinese factories in the 1930~1940s
I am looking for reusable pictures of Chinese factories in the 1930s and 1940s.
The closest categories I could find on Wikimedia Commons don't seem to contain anything relevant:
https://commons....
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Historical Weather Forecasts
Does anybody know if there is a place I can find historical data of weather forecasts by forecaster? I'm mainly interested in forecasts of high temperature and low temperature, but precipitation ...
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Where can I find historical aerials for some areas in Dona Ana County, New Mexico?
How do I find several historical aerials from the mid-1970's or early 1980's and where can I download them and I would like them to be free of charge.
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Archive of ZIP code changes
Each year, some (US) ZIP codes change. New codes are added, preferred and acceptable city names change, codes are sometimes deleted, or even swapped between two cities.
Are there archives anywhere of ...
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Open Data: Dataset containing records of events throughout history?
I had an idea for a project, and I was wondering if there was a dataset somewhere that contained records of historical events - possibly with their start and end dates, the name of the event, and ...
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Results of past NCAA games
Are they any openly available lists of the scores of NCAA games in football or basketball? The information exists in pieces on sites like wikipedia, and Stanford Graph Base has the entire 1990 NCAA ...
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Amazon price history dataset
Are there any datasets on Amazon products' price history? http://camelcamelcamel.com/ doesn't make it available and the Amazon Product Advertising API doesn't seem to give access to the price history.
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Congressional Record in electronic form
Is there a way to get an electronic copy of the Congressional Record, or otherwise get information about all the speakers in Congress, what they said, when they said, the votes on all motions bills, ...
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Data about when cities and neighborhoods were established
Is there any resource that contains information showing when cities, towns and neighborhoods were established?
I am personally looking for information regarding Fort Lauderdale, FL, but I think it ...
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Open dataset for a 65-million year temperature history of earth?
I have been trying to find a dataset for the earth's long-term historical temperature record.
I have seen a few charts like this one from wikipedia.
Is there an open dataset with this information? ...
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Preservation of blog posts, articles and essays
I am curious if there is there any good way to guarantee that my articles (posted on personal sites and other blogs) will last? Is there a reliable repository for articles, post and essays? Or are ...
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Releasing old historical/genealogical datasets as open data
I work with a a couple of small non-profit genealogical and historical groups and we are interested in releasing some of the datasets we've compiled over the years as open data. This information is ...
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Database with the historical prices of most popular products in U.S.?
Is there an open database that would contained the historical prices of the most popular products in U.S.? At best with the product classification, so that it would be possible to make analysis, how ...
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