Questions tagged [releasing-data]
For questions related to making data available for others to use.
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Torrent tracker for open data
Wikipedia says that a torrent tracker is
... a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol.
and
The "tracker" server keeps track of ...
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How do I get my data indexed by Google Dataset Search?
Google now offers Dataset Search (beta)
https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch
Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool ...
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where can i find product packaging information data?
where can i find the dataset about world products packaging components information? For example, the packaging of coke-cola is label, plastic bottle and plastic cap. where can i find such information ...
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Adword or web traffic dataset
looking for website traffic analysis dataset for project ASAP. can you direct me to any resources to download free datasets of such kind? Thanks.
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Sources of funding to curate exisiting datasets?
At my institution (a large land-grant US University), there are some long term research programs that would be of great value to the scientific community if the data were curated and published in an ...
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Hi, does anyone know if the FDA has released ANDA submission dates?
I know the ANDA sometimes will comment on changes in ANDA review time, however the Orange book only provides the approval date and not the submission date.
Does anyone know either where the ...
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Is there a historic drug shortage database?
I was wondering if there was a historic database of drug shortage data?
The current database (link below) appears to only reflect any shortages that have been resolved in 2017, but does not include ...
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How to link a new dataset to an existing dataset?
I have to construct a dataset of hospitals.
For each hospital, I will indicate the the town/region in which it is located.
I already have dataset of towns/regions of the concerned geographic area.
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Iraq IDP/Refugee Camps
Where can I find an updated data set on refugee and internally displaced camps in Iraq? UN OCHA has one from 2014, but it's too old. REACH has one but it holds no geographic information.
I'm working ...
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Countryside Stewardship Water Quality Priority Areas (England)
I'm trying to acquire the 'Countryside Stewardship Water Quality Priority Areas (England)' which can be viewed here under Countryside Stewardship Targeting & Scoring Layers> Water (also shown ...
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Are “protocols” to usgov open data also available?
The U.S. gov creates and makes available a lot of open data on various topics, but the one that I am interested in is new legislation.
Let's say that there is an open data source for new laws (which ...
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How can I reliably host and share large data sets?
Relevant to this answer, I discovered that datahub.io has a 100MB limit on file uploads. I was disappointed to learn this, and it tooks many server errors to realize I should read the FAQ, where I ...
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NEISS injury dataset - machine readable and decoded
The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database offers both a query tool and bulk CSV downloads at maximum one calendar year. The available data dates back to 1991.
Patient ...
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Types of license for OpenData
In order to release the data as open it should come with a license. In the open world, there are differente licenses for different purposes (GPL, MIT, BSD licenses for Software - OpenSource; Creative ...
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Looking for historical data on NBA player-specific salaries and other contract information
I would like to find data that describe every player contract in the NBA, as far back into the past as possible. Optimally, this would include salary, term of contract, player agency, etc.
I search ...
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Bacterial infectious diseases dataset
Does anyone know of a dataset relating:
bacteria (not viruses or fungi)
infectiousness
symptoms
...or something of the sort?
I'm looking to classify infectiousness (ie. infectious/not infectious) ...
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Can anyone use this Journalism tool on UK Public Bodies?
Are you looking for information on public bodies: especially links to their website and FOI request on "what do they know"?
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Are there any public agencies which are currently streaming real-time video data?
I'm engaged in a discussion with the network security department at a public agency with the goal of making their live video data publicly available on the Internet; currently the data never leaves ...
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Seeking spatialized Employment Information for England?
I was looking for a shapefile with employment opportunities (jobs) for England or London – at the LSOA or output level. Im not sure is this is what they call Workplace population.
Is this it?
Do ...
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Open data quality frameworks
I'm looking for some kind of lightweight framework for assessing the quality of datasets, as a publisher. The most widely known one is Tim Berners-Lee's "5 star open data", but it's actually not very ...
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Publishing (structured?) data about products: information about products, barcodes, photos (incl. packaging)
Is it legal to publish photos of products and their packaging?
Can such be done anonymously on some open license? (which would be the best for such data to be open for public use, as products are ...
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Collegescorecard - individual-level anonymized data
Where does the individual-level anonymized data for the collegescorecard live? For obvious reasons, this would be more valuable to researchers than the summary data.
I don't see any access to it from ...
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Where can I find average GPA data by graduate year and college, and ideally by major too?
I'm looking for a data source of average GPA results from each college in the US by graduate year. In an ideal world, an additional level of granularity would by by graduate major for a given college?
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Is there a dataset having multiple files and multiple data formats (JSON+CSV+XML) for research purpose etc.?
I have been working on data science problems with one format(JSON or CSV).I am planning to explore datasets with multiple data formats. Any links to such datasets would be helpful.
For example:
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Data set for Mcdonalds
Searching for any dataset on McDonald's Corporation; it doesn't necessarily have to be recent data. Any data on sales, employee, how they did during promotions, etc.
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What are the most common issues with data cleaning (e.g. outliers, duplicates)? Who has data sets that need to be prepared for analysis?
When preparing data for analysis, I often encountered issues such as outliers, data entries that are logically inconsistent (e.g. age=150/age=-2), duplicates (that are not exactly equal) etc. When ...
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Twitter - Labelling system for sentiments and other things
I have build a program that log tweets from stream by hashtag into a MongoDB database and a website to label them.
The website loads a random tweet and allows me to label them with three buttons (...
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what are the best ways to build / scrape an open-sourced data set of a retailer type (e.g. tobacco retailers?)
I'm a public health epidemiologist, and this question has come up in a number of contexts. I've heard tell of people using Google or Yelp for limited uses, but we'd be building state-wide datasets of ...
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Are there any examples or best practice for encapsulating large open data sets into R packages?
I've recently been experimenting with UK government open data with R, and it seems like I could usefully wrap up some of my work into an R package.
I'd want the package to download the data either ...
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Reliable point spatial data of cities of New Zealand
Can anyone refer to the reliable and freely available point location spatial data source of the cities of New Zealand.
N.B. I used several data source but found all of them are not accurate e.g. this ...
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Wind region Data for New Zealand
Can anyone please refer me the vector data source of the wind region (LEE MULTIPLIER) of New Zealand as the map attached.
N.B.There are three data layers in this map-
Lee Multiplier
Coastal boundary
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Need Resource suggestions about Indicators and Signs in Governmental Open data
I am studying for my master’s degree in Interaction Design domain. For my upcoming Capstone project, can someone please direct me to good resources that talks about governmental open data at community ...
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Publish Media content data to omni channel [closed]
This is a very common scenario.
What is the best way to implement publishing media content (Audio or Video) to different channel for same user?
e.g. If an user access a particular content in desktop ...
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Implications of “For official use only”
Certain US government websites (fpds.gov, sam.gov, among others) have a footer saying something along the lines
This is a U.S. General Services Administration Federal Government
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Android TV - Software Manual - Structure of Each Screen (UX look)
I have to map all Android TV screens that End User has in Android Tv. Is there a Structure Map of Android TV ? Something like manual ?
I am looking for Manual/Specification for Android TV. In this ...
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What methods are used to prepare sensitive data for public access?
I am a policy researcher looking for the best technical methods to sanitize data so it can be uploaded to data portals. I am not working with a specific dataset but looking to gain an understanding of ...
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where can i download archives of eclipse,ibm jazz and mozilla
Where can i find and download bug reports, mailing list archives,execution logs,test cases,for the following projects?
1.Eclipse
2.Ibm jazz and
3.Mozilla
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Government standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data
By standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data I mean the rules that facilitate:
Practical value: Collecting data with a specific goal in mind
Data integrity: Minimizing omissions and ...
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User profiles from professional social network
I'm doing a project in which I need data about users in a professional social network. I need information related to the experience, education or skills of the users. So far I've tried LinkedIn but ...
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Which format (CSV, JSON, Atom, RSS?) should events data be published in?
I'm developing recommendations for local councils publishing event listings. Compared to other kinds of data, events data seems very likely to be used by web and mobile apps (as opposed to downloaded ...
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Publishing Weather Data under Creative Commons / Peer Production License
I am from a volunteer at FSHM (Free Software Hardware Movement, Puducherry, India).
As a part of our community project, we have been working on building a weather station using Freedom Hardware. We ...
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Does Rutgers University Provide Open-Source Geospatial Datasets?
Might these datasets include business names, addresses (some goecoords), County, CBSA, NAIC, SIC, USPS Postal Carrier route and more information for United States and Canada?.
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Can I take “open data” from a website like Quandl, modify it, and then resell it to clients?
I am just wondering if open data have any limitations I may be missing. Can I for example get data through the Quandl API, do some calculations using the data, and resell the data? Is this legal?
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Reporting Poorly Secured Non-Public Use Federally Funded Data
I work for a non-profit and recently I applied for access to non-publicly available data. My concern is that this data is not very well protected, as it potentially contains personally identifiable ...
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Can state, county or city sales tax records be retrieved in the U.S. under FOIA?
Just stopped by my local state government department of revenue office and ask them about how to go about requesting sales tax receipts of certain businesses in my area under the FOIA act. I was told ...
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Protocol/software to publish weather information online
I've got a temperature and humidity sensor that captures the data outside the house and whose data I collect every 5 minutes.
Is there a standard protocol/format that I can use to publish those data ...
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Where can I publish small database for free?
Is there any site where one can easily publish a small database (<5MB)? Ideally, the data should be published in a way that it could be sql selected by number of parameters. Just like any national ...
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How can I Share my Data Sets Without Worrying About Copyright Issues?
I'm doing a lot of research in the field of Digital Text Forensics (e.g., authorship attribution, authorship verification or author profiling). In this field there are only very few data sets ...
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Publishing location based data in Easting and Northing, Longitude and latitude, or Addresses?
I am working on publishing a listing of shelters and hostels, I would like to expose my data to anyone who would like to use it. One of the things I would like to do is allow the shelters and hostels ...
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How do you get access to large amount of data for your project?
I have a question and Googling doesn't really give me a concrete answer so I'm hoping someone on here could explain this to me. I have an idea for an app/website and it needs access to a large ...
