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How can I reliably host and share large data sets?

If you want quick, dirty, and free, you can always host downloadable datasets at the Internet Archive (archive.org). No pretty interface, but as much storage as you could ever want.
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How can I reliably host and share large data sets?

I'm sorry to hear you had a frustrating time uploading to datahub.io and that the site wasn't clear enough about the size limit. Another datahub-like platform that we have worked with in the past is ...
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How can I reliably host and share large data sets?

The quick, dirty, easy answer: compress the large data files into multiple .7z files, setting the maximum limit to 95mb per compressed file. I do this to get around GitHub's limitations, and want to ...
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Data sets for predicting home value

You're probably going to need to get information from many jurisdictions - at least in the US, there is not a good/granular sources for property tax, crime, and other information for all states in one ...
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Can anyone suggest a big dataset for the purpose of regression?

At least a million records you say? I know of a data set that could fit the bill. The 2013 ACS 5-Year PUMS has a record of 7,300,520 households (which represents 6,671,272 housing units and 629,248 ...
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Big Data and machine learning to Predictive analytics

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" is an insightful article, written by by some Google researchers in 2010. If you search for articles that have cited this, you'll find plenty of stuff to read....
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Real-time data APIs

Here you can find tons of APIs: https://www.programmableweb.com/category/all/apis You also have a filter for streaming APIs: https://www.programmableweb.com/category/streaming/apis?category=20253
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Publicly available transaction data

Here are two sales data sets from Kaggle: Rossmann Store Sales Walmart Recruiting — Store Sales Forecasting You can ask on the forums to get an answer for the dateset licenses from the competition ...
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Dataset of large graphs for classifiction

Try Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection https://snap.stanford.edu/data/egonets-Facebook.html[ Directed graphs twitter is listed undirected and directed graphs. Hope it answer your question.
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How can I reliably host and share large data sets?

I was going to add this as a comment on Dan Fowler's answer but I had to create a new account to post official in my role as co-founder and CPO at data.world. I'm glad you found that data.world's ...
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Where to find an actual bigdata with Variety and Volume?

You can find large public datasets in sources including Google Open Data, Kaggle Datasets, Github and Data.gov. If you are specifically looking for large data coverage, the California Open Data Portal-...
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How can I flter data from a stream of very large text files?

Have you looked at AWS Athena yet? It doesn't require any additional storage (besides the existing S3 bucket) and you can query the data (all of it) whenever you want - for example if your query ...
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How can I reliably host and share large data sets?

Have you thought about Google Spreadsheet? You can retrieve the content of any public Google Spreadsheet in your web app using JSON feeds. The sharing permissions of the Google Spreadsheet should be ...
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Publicly available transaction data

For free sales data, check out this database on Quandl: US Census Bureau - Here are the datasets you'll see if you search for "sales" within this database: https://www.quandl.com/data/USCENSUS-U-S-...
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Real-time data APIs

Use Unigraph's data streaming API, it will return you thousands of items per second. Here's how to set it up: https://github.com/unigraph/docs/wiki/Streaming For now just run this sample query in ...
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Data sets for predicting home value

Zillow has a free API that will return their estimate of average home prices. You can get the data down to zipcode and neighborhood level. http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm
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Data sets for predicting home value

I guess you are looking for data like this https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Housing
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open Big Data to solve cancer epidemiology challenge

If you're interested in brain imaging data, you could check out the Connectome Coordination Facility I downloaded the original HCP 1200 for our institution a couple of years free of charge. That's 7T ...
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What's the difference between Open Data and Big Data

Big Data. I think the point has been missed about "Big Data". It doesn't need to be large in volume. There are historically (from 2001) three tenets of big data high volume (e.g. Facebook, Google ...
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