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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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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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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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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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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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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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US House Sale Data
Quandl has some free real estate data:
The Zillow database shows home prices and rents by size, type and tier, housing supply, demand and sales etc: https://www.quandl.com/data/ZILL
The National ...
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US House Sale Data
The property appraisers from each county are able to provide this data.
Additionally, this previous answer had some information: Looking for home sale data
Taken from this post (How to construct a ...
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Looking for dataset of pharmacy Locations in Chicago area
The NPPES (npi) database released by CMS every month is one place to look. They have a record for everyone that has been issued an NPI number, which are needed to invoice and bill medicare and ...
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How data data.gov tend to perform?
In general, government APIs and databases have no SLAs (Service Level Agreements) associated with them. If performance is an issue, you may need to consider an alternate provider.
For cases where ...
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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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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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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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How does the U.S. government prioritize open data gathering?
This answer is different across many cities. From my personal experience in working with some municipalities (so I can not speak for every location) much of the city's data is collected at this point. ...
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Data set for Mcdonalds
Don't know if this will be of interest to you, but some of the datasets related to McDonald's on Quandl include the following:
News Sentiment History for McDondald's corp: https://www.quandl.com/...
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Where to get usa coastline/shoreline data
This is just to share whereas you may benefit from it if needed. I found the data at last at NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer system.
So to my knowledge there are three versions of the usa coastaline ...
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What are some good databases of wind speed and direction to use as training data for machine learning?
You can download wind data in many different temporal resolutions from the Weather Underground, wunderground.com.
To get the data from Berlin-Tegel Airport TXL, I can do
https://www.wunderground.com/...
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How can I register a new API key for api.data.gov programatically?
I've asked the team at api.data.gov to respond.
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How can I register a new API key for api.data.gov programatically?
api.data.gov doesn't actually support end users programmatically creating API keys at this time. Sorry for the mixup (technically the API exists, as Anthony Joseph's answer points out, but this is ...
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Vehicle crash Data for all states in USA
Not aware any API, but these resources aren't PDFs; can most likely scrape/automate accessing these datasets:
CrashStats - National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) Motor Vehicle Traffic ...
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How do i collect mult temporal satelite imagery?
Sentinel-2 provides repeat passes of most of the Earth's surface.
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Alternation ("OR") searching
AFAIK, at least one : should be used in order to enable advanced search on CKAN:
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=title:abracadabra+OR+crime+OR+court+OR+justice+OR+pretrial
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