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Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

Don't forget Stack Overflow! http://data.stackexchange.com/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by llimllib » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

http://www.gapminder.org/data/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by gtani » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/

http://datamob.org/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by dmpayton » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 4:47 PM UTC

Kinda surprised no one has mentioned Factual. I'm using some of their diabetes data for my side-startup.

http://www.factual.com/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by svag » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

There is also the IMDB database in various format provided by IMDB itself here: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

Edit: Although the use of this database is not free, I believe for personal use is just fine to download and experiment...

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by cstuder » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 5:04 PM UTC

And I recently discovered Google Refine, for cleaning up messy datasets.

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by hvs » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 5:25 PM UTC

Don't forget the Lahman Baseball Database with information from 1871-2010

http://baseball1.com/statistics/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by seancron » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 5:27 PM UTC

Here's some more links to data sets:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/open-data-pointers.html

http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-...

http://del.icio.us/pskomoroch/dataset

http://infochimps.com/collections/datamob (and the other collections on the site)

http://www.data.gov/

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by wladimir » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 5:52 PM UTC

Wow, useful stuff. This thread goes into my bookmarks.

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Post by Perceval » Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

For international relations data, Correlates of War hosts a number of data sets: http://www.correlatesofwar.org/Datasets.htm