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Requirements of the Open Data Commons Attribution License
When OCLC released their WorldCat data under Open Data Commons Attribution License last year, there was a question in the library community as to exactly what would be required for adequate ...
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Batch conversions of lat, lon to US census tract?
I have 700,000 latitude/longitude pairs I need to convert to US Census tracts. Is there a free API that offers this in batches? So far the only option I have found is from the FCC and does not state a ...
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openFDA: Can we print results for multiple patients at once?
Is there any way to get multiple patients' results in one output? I've noticed it defaults to show one patient's results at a time - and skipping allows you to see other patients - but is there any ...
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Missing schools on college scorecard
Does anybody know why are some schools not showing up on the College Scorecard (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov) recently released by the Obama administration? For example, why isn't Gateway Community ...
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US county-to-county and/or state-to-state migration flows - historic data for the 20th century
I am looking for US county-to-county migration out flow data. That is, for every county in the United States (say, 1001 Autanga), the data would contain the absolute or relative number of people who ...
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Open large datasets on human body temperature?
Does anyone know of any large population-based dataset that recorded human body temperature?
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Dataset suggestions for teaching data science in a for-profit setting
I'm developing an ebook for a publishing company on Data Science. I'm hunting for a dataset that would be appropriate for this. I've seen many tutorials use iris, but I don't want to - I want to use a ...
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DailyMed RESTful API
I am trying to access the INDICATIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, ADVERSE REACTIONS, and WARNINGS field using the dailymed API. http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/
However, I cannot seem to find ...
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Where can I find some publicly available dataset for retail/grocery store companies?
I am looking for some publicly available dataset for retail/grocery store companies which (preferably) includes data about there stores, number of employees and operations. I tried to look around but ...
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Dataset of Home Appliance Usage
I'm interested in obtaining a dataset that includes the electricity usage of individual home appliances measured at hourly intervals. An example of such a dataset is the IRISE Project from REMODECE. ...
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Dataset: Car types by country
I am looking for a free dataset that shows the number of car types sold/in use in every country.
For example:
Italy: SUV: 2.500.000
Sedan: 3.00.000
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Spain: SUV: 3.500.000
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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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Amazon ASIN and Category
On Amazon, clearly there is a tree where all the leaves are the products and you can narrow down a category to find the products.
For example, what I am looking is actually under the category Cell ...
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What is the latest census statistics on US demographics
I am looking for sources about US demographics, when i started collecting data, i found that there are different statistics inside census data portal.what is the latest +to date+ statistics that I can ...
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Too few results from DBpedia
I am using the following query to get Athletes data from DBpedia
SELECT * WHERE {
?player a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Athlete> .
?player foaf:name ?firstname .
?player foaf:surname ?...
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Capacity/attendance information for US event venues
Can you think of a source for data regarding the capacity (number of seats or people that can fit in the venue) of different venues in the US, ideally large urban centers like NYC, LA, Chicago etc?
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Soccer data set with time stamps for goals
There are many open source data sets available on soccer match data, but I have come across none which offers time stamps for goals specifically.
If someone could provide such a data set, I will be ...
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Data on road traffic in Germany [duplicate]
I'm looking for road traffic data (e.g. average road traffic by day) or congestion data for German cities or other spatial units (e.g. a certain road or highway). What would be important to me is, ...
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What are the most common ways that users find out about new data sets?
I am interested in how typical open data users, such as journalists, researchers, companies, developers, and others, find out about new open data sets today. For example, how do sources like search ...
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Open downloadable recipe database?
I'm interested in doing some analysis of recipes for fun. Ideally, I would like to obtain open recipe database(s) behind {foodily, allrecipes, recipes, bigoven, cooking, cooks}.com or something like ...
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Open API for SEC data?
Is there any free API for programmatically grabbing SEC filing data, such as company financials or insider trading? It seems ironic that the EDGAR search gives you information in a nice tabular form, ...
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A list of cities of each country
Is there a free csv, xml or in some other format database of all (or least top 20-50 biggest) cities for each country in the world?
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Are there any good libraries available for doing normalization of company names?
I've run into a number of use cases where I need to normalize company names in a database before running automated and manual matching. We've usually ended up writing a specific script with endless ...
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Downloadable smartphones data (name, specs)
I'm searching for product data, right now I only need smartphone data. I need like every smartphone name and specifications like width, CPU speed, etc. Now I found some reference to semantics3.com ...
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Free database or API of all North American businesses
I'm looking for a free/open source downloadable database/API of all the businesses in North America. The sort of data that I'm looking for includes: name, address, industry, email address, website, ......
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Data of vehicle traffic
Does anyone know/have good dataset or data feed of vehicle traffic on freeways/highways or urban area?
I'm searching for data from vehicle counters that have small interval of measurement, like 1 or ...
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Free database of vehicle data and images
I've been looking for a free database of vehicle manufacturer's specifications, data, and images for a long time with no luck, does anyone have any ideas?
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Any open public data sets for the English Premier League (EPL)?
The new 2014/15 season kicks off on Aug/16. Wondering what's the state of open data for the English Premier League. Any open data sets available (incl. teams, players, squads, stadiums, old seasons, ...
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Mapping counties to zip codes
Is there any freely available data that relates USA zip codes and USA counties (FIPS County codes)?
Since counties can contain multiple zip codes, one can have multiple entries, in such a table:
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Collect a list of open data systems
for a research project we are trying to collect a list of relevant open data systems. I am aware that systems is very broad so I tried to categorize them a bit.
Please help us extending this list ...
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Airport / airline data from all over the world
Where can I get a database with airports and possible with (available / closed) runways from all over the world?
I am looking for airlines and contact info of managers in decision-making positions at ...
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Free icons of country flags, reusable in both open source and commercial products
I need icons for the flags of countries.
PNG file format
Small sizes such as 32x32 pixels or similar. Consistent size for all flags (even the flags with strange shapes like Nepal, they have to be fit ...
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List of data sources at the state, county and zip / zcta level
I am trying to compile a list data sources - excluding the US Census - that cover the continental US at the state, county and ZIP/ZCTA level. Any help would be appreciated.
Additional details: I ...
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Is there an open API for world terrain data?
I'm looking for open-source or publicly-available terrain data, for instance heightmaps or DEMs -- ideally GeoTIFFS by way of an easy-to-use API. For instance: you pass a pair of lat/longs and maybe a ...
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How to publish real-time open data
I'd want to publish some "real-time" data, i.e. my FV panel energy production, on a server. Which is the best way of cataloguing the data and make it available?
Energy is just an example, say that I ...
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Free English Dictionary
Looking for a free monolingual english dictionary like oxford or longman dictionary, but which I can freely use, without violating any intellectual property. I want to use it in my iOS app.
I need ...
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Extensive Weather or Sea State API?
Please bear with me since this is my first time asking something Weather related.
What would be the best source for getting Sea and Weather related data like
Wind Wave Height (m)
Wind Wave Period (...
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Open database APIs for journal article metadata
Are there any openly-accessible databases for searching journal article metadata? I’m particularly looking for abstracts, citation data, and subjects/tags/fields-of-study information. I’m looking for ...
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Where can I find open data on historical forex rates for financial reporting purposes?
I am looking for historical foreign exchange (forex) data for financial reporting purposes. For example, I would like to distribute a data source that could be used for determining forex gains and ...
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Any uses of JSON-LD?
The formal semantic web, now linked data, using RDF is largely flailing in most regions outside the UK. The main problem is the complexity in implementation compared with the tools typically used by ...
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Is there a complete list of all US tax-exempt nonprofits in machine-readable format?
I've seen they can be purchased from Guidestar, but wondered if there was an freely available open data source.
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Get Wikipedia URLs (sitelinks) in Wikidata SPARQL query
I can use the following query to list all sovereign states via the Wikidata query interface:
PREFIX wikibase: <http://wikiba.se/ontology#>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
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Credit card metadata database
Is there a database of credit card numbers that tells you what bank issued the credit card?
3 is American Express
4 is Visa/MasterCard
6 is Discover
Typically the first 6 numbers will indicate what ...
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Speech audio files dataset with language labels
I am working on building a language classifier in speech/audio samples. I have been trying to find a dataset which may have considerable number of speech samples in various languages. The audio files ...
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Dataset of major newspapers content
I'm looking for the materials of major newspapers, such as The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Economist. A random sample of their articles or headlines would suffice, but each newspaper has ...
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Predictive Maintenance Data
I'm eager to try out some more with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and would like to find a data set to make a use case concerning predictive manufacturing. Microsoft already offers a data set (semi ...
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Disease Symptom Dataset?
I am currently working on a disease diagnosis system, it is a prototype based on one of my dissertation's papers S-Approximation: A New Approach to Algebraic Approximation and S-approximation Spaces: ...
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Any Open Data Sets for the (Football) World Cup (in Brazil 2014)?
Are there any public data sets for the World Cup in Brazil 2014?
Didn't find anything for download on the official FIFA site (besides a single-page PDF booklet for the match schedule).
Ideally the ...
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Nicknames database
I'm interested in being able to identify a name like "Nick" as a short form of a name like "Nicholas" in a data set.
Is there any kind of open or somewhat standardized mapping of names and nicknames ...
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Dump of WikiLeaks
Does a dump or scrape of WikiLeaks exist? I'm thinking of an equivalent to Wikipedia's database download: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
So far, I haven't found direct ...