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What kind of spreadsheet/application are the Socrata datasets built on?

Socrata actually isn't built on top of an existing spreadsheet application or platform. We've built our own platform using a number of different open source technologies. Customer data is stored in ...
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Database of user agents

The User Agent Project is a research project consisting of a comprehensive list of unique user agent strings compiled since 2006. The UA Project is accessible as a specialized search engine. ...
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Popularity of programming libraries

Github is the de facto internet repository for open source code. They've released source code data from packages hosted on this site (press release, blog post with examples). The data is available as ...
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Bounty Programs for Open Source Projects

I've compiled a short list of potential sources to answer the question: https://www.freelancer.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bounties.network/ https://internetbugbounty.org/ https:/...
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Number of lines of codes an average programmer touches per year?

I am not sure how you would determine lasting code, but not to sway you from trying, there are a couple of data-sets: tera-PROMISE is a research dataset repository specializing in software ...
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Repository of virus-infected computer files

This discussion is old but it might still help you. It points to this page on EICAR which is still up. Another site to grab the EICAR test file.
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Data set of software fault prediction studies

you can look at the software-artifacts infrastructure repository. this repository contains open source software with manually injected faults,test cases and scripts. This repository is available for ...
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How can I convert xy line-plots to textual data values?

Here is a blog post that compares 16 graph digitizing tools, some free, some not. The suggestion is to use WebPlotDigitizer. The blog doesn't mention if any of the tools can be used to automate the ...
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List / database of commonly used existing CLI executable names

For macOS you can use this list and for Windows this one. This website seems to have some useful lists summarizing the CLI commands. However, there will always be extra/additional tools that can be ...
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Bounty Programs for Open Source Projects

I do not know up to which extend the spirit of the original answer by @sboysel is preserved by including the fees with a link to the source for the fees, so I posted it as a separate answer: https://...
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Database of user agents

I've found so far this: Massive list of user agents for User Agent Switcher by Chris Pederik. It's in XML format and it's grouped based on the browser and the device type. It has 602 entries. Here ...
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Data sets for small human written programs

Have you tried Github.com? There are millions of lines of code from different programs of varying lengths. Github also has an API.
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Database of user agents

https://www.npmjs.com/package/user-agents - this solves a lot of the issues. User-Agents is a JavaScript package for generating random User Agents based on how frequently they're used in the wild. ...
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Popularity of programming libraries

https://mvnrepository.com lets you know how many times a particular Java library has been downloaded, with a breakdown for each version, see the "Usages" column for Log4j: ... and for its competitor ...
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Japan software export statistics

I am not sure of how Japan handles exports but the US Dept of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has a list of 10 Commerce Control List Categories and these are broken into 5 Product ...
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Open data sets about software development: code quality, defect rate, programming languages?

Some of the projects listed under the data sets section of dspinelli's awesome list for mining software repositories (MSR) stuff might be useful. Some examples (additional information found on the ...
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Common words missing from typical spellcheckers

I had not previously known about the Brigham Young Corpus of Contemporary American English and its companion, wordfrequency.info. Only their 5000 word list is offered at no cost, and that seems to be ...
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Common words missing from typical spellcheckers

I don't know about a single list that would do what you're looking for, but the Oxford English Dictionary posts a 'new words list' a few times a year. They have back to March 2000 posted online. ...
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