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American Indian reservation boundaries
My guess is that the census tiger products are going to have what you're looking for.
http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2016/TGRSHP2016_TechDoc_Ch2.pdf
"The legal entities ...
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Average Job Salary by Title/Location/Etc. (US or Intl)
I recommend Occupational Employment Statistics. Includes approximately 800 job categories/titles (Standard Occupational Classification). Reports estimated employment, average wages and 10th/25th/50th/...
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) data
Just released on Github!!
Frostline
A parser and resulting dataset for USDA plant hardiness zones. It uses the ZIP-querying API built into the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone ...
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Graph of Landsat Downloads?
Apparently, here:
Source: http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/files/2015/01/free-and-open-data-policy-graph-no-footnote.jpg
Here is the original post, noting cost savings from Landsat. http://landsat....
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Household income by ZIP+4
First, note that ZIP codes are not geographies (see this other answer).
Also, as Kotebiya notes in a comment, there aren't pseudo-geographies for ZIP+4 and if there were, they would probably ...
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Where to get usa coastline/shoreline data
There are actually a lot of sources for this, and some sources have multiple products.
This chart on NOAA breaks it down
These sites are pretty difficult to navigate, and I'm unsure of your ...
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How can I register a new API key for api.data.gov programatically?
On the USDA Food Composition Database page you posted, there's a form to create an account via their website. That form submits a HTTP POST message to the following link:
https://api.data.gov/api-...
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What are the data quality measures for open data?
Tim Berners-Lee suggested the following 5 star approach:
Under the star scheme, you get one (big!) star if the information has
been made public at all, even if it is a photo of a scan of a fax of a
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Where can I find registered company data through web services
If it's not on opencorporates, I doubt you'll find it anywhere else.
Have a chat to the people there if you're still looking.
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Is there any state wise and quarterly downloadable US economic data apart from GDP?
Quandl has a dataset from the Bureau of Economic Analysis that might be helpful for you. It has many economic metrics at the state level.
Quandl is a great resource for datasets like this.
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Invalid API Key - Accessing OSHA data
Looks like you got it right in your answer. The "data.dol.gov" URLs use the newer Department of Labor API (v2), which sends the Key in the http headers.
See the data.dol.gov tab for more information ...
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Medical Terminology in Patient Medical Records - Public Data Sets
The MIMIC-III dataset would be well suited to the kind of natural language processing (NLP) study that you are interested in doing. MIMIC-III includes deidentified nursing progress notes, imaging ...
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Independent Census Data for 3rd World Countries
you are looking for ipums international.
https://international.ipums.org/international/
easiest to analyze with
http://www.asdfree.com/2015/11/laptop-friendly-analysis-of-census-of.html
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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) data download in R
I created a function to download data IMERG HDF5 and convert them to raster GeoTIFF. You can see the code in https://github.com/AybarCL/GPM-data-management
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US House Sale Data
Historical graph of US new housing starts. It measures the building of new houses. Which isn't as telling as it used to be because in some cases, in some areas, it's cheaper to build a brand new house ...
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Where do I find data of all companies in this world?
Open Corporates is the largest public database of corporations in the world; they have a slew of data/apis/etc.
Open Corporates
EDIT:
I'm not 100% on how to use Open Corporates, but after a quick ...
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Is there a dataset for the Federal congressional voting record?
GovTrack has congressional voting records data. Including in bulk, JSON files https://www.govtrack.us/developers/data
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Mapping PUMA Codes to TIGER/line shapefiles
There are 4 variables you are leaving out of the shapefile that was imported to R.
STATEFP10 is the 2-digit FIPS code for the state.
PUMACE10 is the 5-digit FIPS code for the 2010 PUMA within a state....
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How can I register a new API key for api.data.gov programatically?
We have set a rate limit of 1000 requests/hr per IP rather than key. Our documentation now reflects this change.
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Are the API keys on data.gov considered sensitive?
There are some API limits tied to a specific API key. If a third-party used your key, their calls would effect how many calls you can make.
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Are there good examples of open read-write APIs in Federal government?
The Regulations.gov API answer is a good example! It's also an example of government dogfooding its own APIs.
As I am sure you are aware, the We the People petition site has a write API as well: ...
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Visitors to Data.gov by country of origin?
Thanks for filing the GitHub issue too Mitchell.
For background on this:
Visitor stats by country and top states were retired with the new
data.gov theme launch about an year ago, earlier the ...
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How can I get a list of all non-geodata datasets on Data.gov?
This is an update to the answers above as of January 2015.
I've got the following results when trying the above urls:
Re Dmitry's answer:
https://explore.data.gov/api/dcat.json?page=1
does not ...
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Forbes.com writer looking for up-and-running examples of data driven applications that improve human services in government
Some colleagues and I started cataloging some different interesting ways government data is being used:
https://github.com/18F/ideas/issues/2
I'm no expert on this, and this doesn't quite answer ...
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Water level historical data for California
If you're looking for hydrological data, the USGS has steam gauge data, which has a measure of the height of the water at various locations over time:
http://water.usgs.gov/nsip/
For particulate ...
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California water district boundaries
Update:
this data is now available on open data se's datahub.io account, here:
http://datahub.io/dataset/california-water-district-boundaries
For those times when data was posted, but has since ...
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How do I download a Socrata graph or map definition I have created?
I see our support team responded to your support request you posted to support.socrata.com. The gist of the answer, for others' benefit, is that this is not currently supported but we are passing this ...
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Funding data for US Department of Education CSV format
If the data you need is from more recent years, USAspending.gov is a good place to start (you can choose a specific agency on the data download page: https://www.usaspending.gov/DownloadCenter/Pages/...
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Medical Terminology in Patient Medical Records - Public Data Sets
Another good-size data set of natural language patient notes is available here: http://www.mtsamples.com/
It covers notes across multiple specialities and conditions.
We can also provide an ...
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How do I get just city-level data on data.gov?
Below is the link to city level datasets in data.gov
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?groups=local&organization_type=City+Government#topic=local_navigation
You will see there is only 2600 ...
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