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Clickstream sample dataset
Dataset 1:
Wikipedia Releases Clickstream Data
Wikipedia has released a data set of clickstream data for January 2015. A clickstream is the path a user requests to get to a desired web page or ...
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Database of French companies
You can use the SIRENE database, maintained by INSEE, part of the French government.
It is the official companies database, and has about 10 millions. It is updated everyday.
It used to cost money, ...
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Internal company data: policy and documentation
Here are some more interesting ones:
The Ropes at Disney (1943)
Interestingly constructed with a rope going throughout the document; women at the time had 10 sick days and men only 5.
Steam (2012)
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Free database or API of all North American businesses
As an aside, all British Company data is available at Companies House via the web interface or via CSV files:
http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html
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Looking for database of US companies
Opencorporates is a good start, if you tell us more about the geographies you are interested in we might be able to help more.
Look also at the datasets listed here, all trade registries are free and ...
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List of organization names
not sure what you mean exactly by organization, but i believe you seek data that can be found in open corporates. you can drill down to data available in the US from their site:
https://opencorporates....
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Where to find data on Australian business types and locations?
I wasn't able to find any free datasets which answered my question.
But the next best thing was a reasonably cheap dataset from http://datajet.com.au which had business name, type and lat/long:
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Where can I find examples of open data being used in business?
There is now http://www.opendataenterprise.org/ - a list and map of companies and other organisations that use open data around the world.
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Free UK Company Database
Seems like OpenCorporates is exactly what you're looking for. It describes itself as:
The largest open database of companies in the world
https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb is the listing of ...
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Can I share informations from USA company register?
It most certainly is legal, although I don't see anything directly on the site regarding the specific search data. Most federal data (content for that matter) are automatically open when published by ...
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Where to get basic business info such as address and phone number?
OpenCorporates is the only open database of companies in the world that I am aware. They provide addresses and other data. Not sure if they have phone numbers. But I guess it is the best free, open ...
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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?)
There are a number of government sources that you could turn to for a live list of a specific type of retailer, in lieu of scraping Google or Yelp.
For example, the FDA publishes a dataset of all ...
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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?)
In most cases it's not illegal to scrape sites, or unethical (dependent on use). Getting direct access to a companies database is always tricky if not cost prohibitive. The first question is always ...
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Internal company data: policy and documentation
I have found two tech companies that have published their handbook online:
Gitlab
A remote-only company that's developing an alternative to github for IT development. The company is dedicated to being ...
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Where can I find historical business address data for specific types of businesses?
Do you have reasons to believe that addresses of these establishments (the casino being a structure) can change?
Anyway, my best bet is to look for their EIN (Employer Identification Number) with the ...
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List of New Jersey businesses sorted by zip code and SIC code
A potentially useful link to the State of NJ's page on public information related to business: http://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/guiderequest.shtml
Don't think there's anything that is directly ...
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XLS or CSV Historic EDGAR CIK list, for a specific state?
Yes, you can download everything from 2009 onwards from here:
https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-data-sets.html get the file submissions.csv and there you will find the submitter's CIK ...
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I'm looking to match quite a lot of US companies to their NAICS codes without having to manually search it up
You can use Relativity6 API service to classify business with NAICs, just using business name and address. The system will perform a real-time consulting with the help of an IA to classify the ...
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Database of US Maine companies
https://opencorporates.com/registers is a nice starting point to check whether data is freely available to download.
For example if we check https://opencorporates.com/registers/147 which is Maine ...
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Getting SIC Codes for Companies
OpenCorporates is an agregator that collects public company information from different national registries. It also contains SIC codes whenever available. Althought access to OC's API is paid, in the ...
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Is there any open data business directory?
The closest is probably Open Corporates, the data is not fully open data but you may be able to get what you need.
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Where can I get a list of new businesses that are created in the US?
Yes, there are public resources available to access information on companies created in the US.
You can view open data of 500 companies in the US here
Additionally, you can use Data.govfor more ...
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Trying to match convenience store names / gas station names to their corporate parent
See
https://www.redliondata.com/dataset/kroger-usa-locations/
they have store Names and lat/long...
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Trying to match convenience store names / gas station names to their corporate parent
It depends on your budget.
I'd assume you need free data.
A good start will be Croctail, they also provide API and bulk download. Mind that the data there, cleaned and parsed from SEC EDGAR's filings ...
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Database of Press Releases
Most publicly traded companies (and some private ones) will keep a list of recent press releases on their website. Sometimes Yahoo Finance, when "covering" a publicly traded company, will compile a ...
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Getting a full list of companies registered in Malta
You could do it programatically in R using a combination of RSelenium and rvest packages to navigate then screen scrape your data. Then you can iteratively go through each 15 day chunk going back in ...
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Consumer Demographics for Individual Products
The iPhone/Android demographics can be manually parsed out of this article: What kind of person prefers an iPhone
Here is a snippet:
Characteristics of iPhone people versus Android people:
Highest ...
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Where can I find examples of open data being used in business?
Well, my advice would be just look around. An increasingly large number of companies are making use of open data. A number of products and services around us are based on open data.
Ever since UK’s ...
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