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Cryptocurrency historical prices
I work at Quandl and stumbled upon this post. I'm happy to share an update: we now have two databases which contain OHLCV (open-high-low-close-volume) data for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies:
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Where can I get shapefiles for changing German territory during the Second World War?
I found the spatial history project, which give month to month changes of the front lines. The article covers all interesting information and you can download the dataset (after the first figure) - ...
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Largest U.S. cities per state in 1950
The data you want are in these files.
The primary source for this data was a US Census Bureau dataset of ~7500 incorporated cities whose populations surpassed 2500 people at some point in their ...
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Total cryptocurrency market cap over time
As @philshem suggested I wrote some python to gather the data
import pandas as pd
import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# Create date range for historical snapshots
Date = pd....
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Seeking River Thames polygon data
OpenStreetMap has it as Waterway.
Data Source (shapefile)
https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/great-britain/england/greater-london.html
Extract and load into a GIS (QGIS used here).
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Historical weather forecast API
Have you tried Google BigQuery?
GBQ has now loaded climate data worldwide from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) from over 9,000 weather stations. The data includes 2015 and ...
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Population and GDP of the UK nations 1950-today
The Office for National Statistics website is going to be your friend here.
The current Population Estimates Dataset includes (under 'Mid-2016 detailed time series') national and regional population ...
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free REST API for daily end-of-day S&P 500 index
By looking into yFinance source code I've found this query:
https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/%5EGSPC
where %5E is ^ ( ^GSPC )
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Cryptocurrency historical prices
http://www.CryptoDataDownload.com is newer but has 28+ exchanges, ~550 pairs, 8+ ccy pairs, and daily/hourly/minute timeframes to download via csv format for free
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Historical Oil Price Forecasts - MENA/West Africa Region
The historical forecast archive of the World Bank has the following note:
please also note that in the past, commodities forecasts have not appeared in stand-alone publications, but rather as ...
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Get Historic Temperature Data by GPS and Timestamp Using R
I recommend trying rnoaa https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rnoaa/ - It's an interface to many different data sources from NOAA.
df <- data.frame(
id = letters[1:6],
time = c("2016-06-01 ...
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Administrative boundaries for historical political entities?
National GIS Resources
NHGIS has historical data for the United States
Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS)
The Great Britain Historical GIS (Main)
GBHGIS Data Access
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Seeking River Thames polygon data
As proposed by @Mapperz, download the data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). You can download just the data you're interested in by using Overpass Turbo - zoom to the area of your interest and insert the tag ...
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Historical arthritis rates for Americans since 1990 to present
hi arthritis questions are available as long-term trends in both brfss and nhis. run the numbers you want by yourself by directly using the microdata. here are step-by-step instructions:
http://www....
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US-County level - median income 1930 to 1990
I suggest you search IPUMS, which has variables going back to 1850: https://usa.ipums.org/usa/index.shtml
I quickly searched and found that at least, personal income has been evaluated going back to ...
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Historical Mobile App Rankings/Downloads and Prices
Check http://androidrank.org , it contains data on android applications and it is for free.
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Total cryptocurrency market cap over time
Scraping your link is not too difficult, because the raw data is in the source code.
First, create a list of all possible dates, from this URL
https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/
['20130428','...
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Historical data of what country a city belongs to over a historical period?
The approach I would take is to get a current latitude and longitude of the city and then look it up in a collection of historical shapefiles such as the ones discussed here. You would have to do that ...
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GIS data for Castles - UK, Europe also nice
The UK has separate heritage organisations for each of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland so the easiest way to do this is probably to get the data from Open Street Map. Features on OSM can ...
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UK battle sites
You can find the locations of registered battlefields in England and battlefield boundaries in Scotland on the data.gov.uk website licensed under the Open Government Licence. Note that these files ...
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Archive of ZIP code changes
The SAS Institute posts quarterly ZIP code files to its website (you need to create a SAS profile to view the files) and they have archived files going back a number of years. That could be helpful!
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Open Data: Dataset containing records of events throughout history?
I am working on such a discrete modelling of events from the Italian Renaissance, based chiefly on the contemporary diary of Luca Landucci and various letters and accounts by figures like Michelangelo,...
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Historical Mobile App Rankings/Downloads and Prices
There is an unofficial Android Market API (Java) where you can slowly collect all the data you may be interested in
Android Market API
This library allow you to ask directly google's official ...
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Stock market historical data
The TORQ database is a database of all data related to a random sample of 144 companies from NYSE, for the dates 1990-11-01 to 1991-01-31. In contrast to other databases, it includes not only prices ...
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Historical weather forecast API
Have at a look at this post, as it might answer your questions.
Alternatively I know that historic data can be requested from the UK's MetOffice as long as it is non commercial purposes, but this is ...
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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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Dead Sea historical measurements 1930s to 1970s
Some reverse image searching gives this Wikipedia citation, which then gives this website, which cites this dead website (wayback machine archive), which hosted a report which contains this PDF page ...
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Where can I find historical data for Italian weather (especially for hail storm)?
In the event you get no other answers (or better ones), I do have an option for you. It's a little messy and 'manual', but it will work if you have no other options.
In summary, follow these steps:
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Historical weather forecast compared to actual weather?
I found this on cousin site Stats.Stackexchange.com, from 2011:
Determining the reliability of weather forecast
One of the resources may be useful:
ESRL/PSD GEFS Reforecast Version 2
The ESRL/PSD ...
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