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Re: Google Dataset Search

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Post by danso »

Very nice. Worth keeping in mind prior examples for comparison's sake. My favorites so far:

- https://www.opendatanetwork.com -- what I would call the "Google, for Socrata datasets"

- https://public.enigma.com/ -- One of the best collections of U.S. federal data, with good taxonomy and lots of useful options for refining a search, such as filtering by dataset size.

- https://www.data.gov/ -- Not as useful as what most people would want -- e.g. unlike Enigma and Socrata, it's a directory of self-submitted (by the government) data sources, not one in which the data is stored/provided in a standardized way. But it's a pretty good listing, though not sure if it's much better than just using Google.

- https://data.gov.uk/ -- Better than the U.S. version in terms of usability and taxonomy.

Re: Google Dataset Search

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Post by softwaredoug »

danso wrote: post #2

Very nice. Worth keeping in mind prior examples for comparison's sake. My favorites so far: - https://www.opendatanetwork.com -- what I would call the "Google, for Socrata datasets" - https://public.enigma.com/ -- One of the best collections of U.S. federal data, with good taxonomy and lots of useful options for refining a search, such as filtering by dataset size. - https://www.data.gov/ -- Not as useful as what mos…

Another example is Elsevier's Data Search project

- https://datasearch.elsevier.com/

Re: Google Dataset Search

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Post by wiredfool »

danso wrote: post #2

Very nice. Worth keeping in mind prior examples for comparison's sake. My favorites so far: - https://www.opendatanetwork.com -- what I would call the "Google, for Socrata datasets" - https://public.enigma.com/ -- One of the best collections of U.S. federal data, with good taxonomy and lots of useful options for refining a search, such as filtering by dataset size. - https://www.data.gov/ -- Not as useful as what mos…

https://data.gov.ie —- this is a repository of a bunch of the open data produced in the Irish public sector.

(Disclosure, I work on this)

Re: Google Dataset Search

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Post by Dangeranger »

Nice. I'm glad Google is making it easier to find public data sets. I wish that these could be filtered by format, so that you could narrow them to CSV, XML, JSON, KML, etc.

Another nice resource that I've used in the past is 'toddmotto/public-apis' on Github [0].

In the end I would prefer all public data sets to be available over the DAT protocol [1] instead of being hosted only on government or organization websites. A lot of climate data previously made available by the EPA was taken down, and only saved by efforts of volunteers.[2]

[0] https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis

[1] https://datproject.org/

[2] https://www.wired.com/2017/01/rogue-scientists-race-save-cli...

Re: Google Dataset Search

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Post by alphakappa »

danso wrote: post #2

Very nice. Worth keeping in mind prior examples for comparison's sake. My favorites so far: - https://www.opendatanetwork.com -- what I would call the "Google, for Socrata datasets" - https://public.enigma.com/ -- One of the best collections of U.S. federal data, with good taxonomy and lots of useful options for refining a search, such as filtering by dataset size. - https://www.data.gov/ -- Not as useful as what mos…

Also, https://data.gov.in -- Lots of self-submitted datasets, and includes an API. Usability is average, much like the other government data sources.
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