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Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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What about http://ckan.org/ ? The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network! Pretty sweet resource really.

The CKAN software is a platform for hosting data and metadata, but as far as I see, http://ckan.org does not actually list data sets.

try http://ckan.net for the data, http://ckan.org is for the software behind it :)

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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We've got quite a lot of public economic data: http://timetric.com/ . If you're up to something in the economic data space we'd love to talk. Happy to take this to email (andrew@timetric.com) if anyone's interested.

I looked at the site, and I see some data but I didn't find what I would have hoped for. I couldn't find yield curves, and historical exchange rates up to today (available on the ecb site in xml format). Certainly I would have thought yield curves were a front page item. Things that would be very cool would be 1. financial statements in a database format. I know you can scrape this but I don't know if they are availa…

http://timetric.com/dataset/exchange_rates_forex_europe/ for the exchange-rate data, at least.

Re: Free, Public Data Sets

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I looked at the site, and I see some data but I didn't find what I would have hoped for. I couldn't find yield curves, and historical exchange rates up to today (available on the ecb site in xml format). Certainly I would have thought yield curves were a front page item. Things that would be very cool would be 1. financial statements in a database format. I know you can scrape this but I don't know if they are availa…

http://timetric.com/dataset/exchange_rates_forex_europe/ for the exchange-rate data, at least.

Okay - it's there...

Is it your site? Are you going to add yield curves?

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