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Is there a resource or estimate for the annual number of global births for the past 10,000 years (or further)? Even if not annual, something with a reasonable enough frequency that I could do some ...

Does anyone know if it's possible to use CKAN for commercial use?

Where can I find statistics for sport competitions, like Olympics and international championships? I'm looking for actual results, like timing in 100m races or rates given to figure skaters. Sources ...

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 ...

Software being a non-physical product, it is sometimes hard to guess prices. And while consumer-grade software has price listed, for most enterprise software (for instance Documentum or FileNet) you ...

I am preparing for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1. I am looking for a list of vocabulary (kanjis) that I should probably study for this test. I know there is no official list, but is ...

I'm looking for large open data which provides chemical compounds, substances, structures and products. Database of chemical reactions, formulas and similar would be beneficial as well. Some academia ...

I am looking for information related to test preparation for the GRE. math questions with answers (GRE subjects) vocabulary tests

I am creating a Quiz game that can contain any kind of quiz in different categories e.g. In Sports category it can be Cricket, Football etc., In Space category it can be Universe, Planets, Space ...

In the MAUDE search tool on FDA.gov there is a standard list of problems in a product problem field. This is not available in the API. See screenshot for example. This would be a great addition to ...

This is a questions about skillful master bakers who sell their wonderful artisan breads and baguettes to famous bakeries, farmer's markets and similar places excluding any patisserie items. Is there ...

I am looking for a collection of voice files for individual piano notes. Any audio format, for instance ogg or mp3. Needs to be freely reusable, and reasonably accurate. Having several different ...

Hi I'm currently using the following function to get complaints on certain drugs over time. However the output gives me the number of reported complaints on a daily basis. It would help me a great ...

What are good open data sources for open data? data.gov is nice but limited to American open data. datahub.io is based on CKAN, it comes closes to what I have in mind and it has an API. There's also ...

I am looking for sources of available datasets on M&A. My preference would be for a clean panel dataset that might have previously been used for the purpose of studying the effect of M&A on ...

Hitchhiking is the art of finding free rides. (I'm not interested in paid ride shares.) Hitchwiki Maps has an API. There's also an API for Hitchwiki articles but the data is not always structured ...

I was looking for a Stack Exchange site to ask this and Open Data seems to be the one. I am to write a short note on how to find information on the internet and for that I would love to read a ...

I am looking for a street gang dataset listing with as many following fields as possible: gang name number of members number of crimes (ideally classified into different crime categories) age, gender ...

i'm building an nfl-themed app and want to add as many NFL team sports bar locations as possible. does anyone know of such or list, or even a data-mining strategy for compiling one?

I've been seeing ISO 19115 pop up in discussions more and more recently. It appears to be a standard for NOAA and other federal agencies. Yet when I google "ISO 19115" the first entry I see is from ...

If I want to integrate with the NAICS system but want to "zoom in" on certain categories, and to add categories for various illicit or underground activities. Is there a standard way of extending the ...

I am looking for something that will tell me how many people are employed in each occupation in the United States. E.g. 20 million people in education, 12 million people working in the food industry, ...

I am looking for a dataset listing college student suicides (preferably in the US) with as many following fields as possible: college name date/time age gender major/minor reason of suicide method ...

http://www.cfbstats.com/ used to publish awesome, comprehensive statistics for college football as CSV's. It looks like all their links (including from the blog post announcing opening their data) now ...

I'm just trying to parse Wiktionary Data Dump provided by Wikimedia. My intention is to parse that XML data dump into MySQL database. I didn't find proper documentation regarding the structure of this ...

OpenCorporates doesn't have data for German companies (yet?). Is there a source with open data for German companies?

Everybody uses the term "dataset". Is here any exact definition for it? Asking because trying to draw an hierarchical diagram what show relations in open-data, comparing different legislations, ...

I am looking for a large database / list of quotes I can use. Preferably famous quotes / quotes by famous people. I have tried looking for a brainyquote API or something, but couldn't find one. If ...

I have looked through several data sources--OSHPD, HCUP, Medicare--looking for any data (restricted or public use) on what uninsured patients "actually" pay (as opposed to what they were initially ...

I'm looking for a dataset on the 2014 Ebola outbreak with as many following fields as possible: For each individual contaminated with ebola: Estimated datetime and location of detection Datetime and ...

I'm going to write a game and include simulated shipping based upon real data. MarineTraffic.com has some great data, but I really don't need it to be live, up to the minute. I could use data that ...

I am putting together a tutorial on how to build APIs and I was curious if there are any open data sets that do not have an API attached to it.

Does anyone know of any national weather datasets that cover the contiguous US for the period 1980 to 2011? I need gridded values, preferably with a grid size (resolution) of 1 km x 1 km up to (maybe)...

I am seeking data about war propaganda songs, such as those used in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and how they are spread via social media.

I am trying to populate a GeoJSON layer of blockgroups in Leaflet with attribute data pulled live from the Census API. My GeoJSON has the full FIPS code for the blockgroups as an attribute. That is, ...

This post provides a good explanation why and how the data collection process should be part of the implementation of an open data project rather than just a once-executed-and-then-forgotten step. ...

We are looking for a data set or data sets to test record linkage/identity resolution. The target problem is matching up customers to people on various watch lists. We want to test the basic stuff ...

Does anyone know of a corpus of US addresses where the parts of the addresses have been tagged. Something like <streetNumber>123</streetNumber> <streetDirection>E.</...

I recently downloaded a ZIP file in RDF format from the Barcelona Open Data web page. This format is a subset (or that is what I understand) of XML. I’ve been trying to parse it with an objective C ...

I'm looking for free datasets of product reviews. At minimum I need the following values for each record: Rating (e.g. 2/5 stars, or 40%) Product Name / Description (e.g. iPhone 5s) Reviewer (e.g. ...

How can I structure a question on the FDA OpenApp that will return all Class 1 and 2 medical device recalls for radiation therapy devices over a certain period (e.g. the month of June 2014)?

I am trying to track down how many veterans have been and are currently in Congress The closest thing I have found is this PDF but it only gives me the 113 congress I would like to find something a ...

Are there any sources of machine readable IRS codes (e.g. state, country etc.)? For example, on the 1099-B instructions, the 1f code on this form. However I would like avoid having to scrape the pdf ...

I'm in a process of investigation of openFDA API and its possibilities. For now I'm reviewing this type of request - One enforcement report of a certain health hazard class https://api.fda.gov/drug/...

Value is subjective. One person might want a certain house so much that he will pay for it $2 million, while another person won't give even $0.5 million to the same house. The market price of the ...

Thanks to Is there an open database of elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States? I found http://www.ed.gov/developers where I downloaded a list of schools ( School District / Local ...

The Dutch company register at kvk.nl doesn't have an API. Where can I find open company data for the Netherlands? Ideally with an API.

I would like to find a list of company that deal with a specific sector of industry. I don't know how I can retrieve these data, I know that probably there is a list in Chambers of Commerce but I know ...

I'm dipping my toes into the openFDA dataset and want to do some searches related to congenital anomalies. I know this data is searchable because the folks at Social Health Insights have built a ...

Is there a list of all universities by country including their websites, location, latitude and longitude, facebook, twitter, youtube, founding year etc. I can't believe such a data set is not ...