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Where can I get large datasets open to the public?
- bigiain 16y agohttp://jacquesmattheij.com/Free%2C+Public+Data+Sets http://jacquesmattheij.com/Free%2C+Public+Data+Sets And discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165497 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165497
- kordless 16y agoInfochimps?
- latch 16y agoI believe Steven Levitt used the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) from the national highway traffic safety administration (NHTSA) for his seatbelts vs carseats work: ftp://ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov/fars/
- plannerball 16y agoFreebase?
- shii 16y agohttp://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/ http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/
- machinespit 16y agodata.gov and other US gov data sites are getting severe cuts even though they're saving money (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798 http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798) Very upsetting for fans of open / accessible (government) data. FWIW, petition at http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/ http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/
- buckwild 16y agoI have a feeling this might be a bluff. This scare might just be politics as usual. It just doesn't make sense to cut this, especially if they're saving money.
- tybris 16y agoGoogle or Amazon should offer to sponsor it and make the data accessible in their respective cloud computing platforms. There's tons of potential for data analysis / consultancy companies to work on this data and it's too big to process anywhere else.
- wizard_2 16y agoThe major cost of the data is gathering it not distributing it. But I agree this is something that needs to be archived.
- eli 16y agoWorth noting that nothing has been cut yet
- buss 16y agohttp://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ which includes my former advisor's dataset (UF sparse matrix collection) which includes a matrix or two from my research.
- brandnewlow 16y agoOn that topic, anyone have any suggestions for the easiest way to prepopulate a directory of local businesses in the U.S.?
- jbermudes 16y agoYelp has an API that returns business data in a given geographic area. You could probably get a list of zipcodes from wikipedia and then just loop through that.
- achompas 16y agoWouldn't be close to a list of local businesses--only those that are customer-facing. Yelp has little coverage for B2B-focused businesses.
- barefoot 16y agoHow many of these allow me to create for-profit websites with them?
- raghus 16y agoAlso, check out http://aws.amazon.com/datasets http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
- physcab 16y agoAsking "What datasets are available to me?" is sometimes the wrong question. A better way of going about the problem is asking something more specific like "How can I create a heat-map of U.S poverty?" The reason why the latter is better is that it not only focuses your attention on something do-able but it actually teaches you more about data analysis than just searching for datasets. For example, to solve the question above you are going to be asking yourself the following followup questions: 1) Where do I get a map of the U.S? 2) How do I make a heat-map? 3) How do I feed in my own data into this heat map? 4) What colors do I use? 5) Can I do this real-time? Do I need a database? What language do I use? 6) Whats a FIPS code? 7) How do I find a poverty dataset with FIPS codes? 8) This poverty dataset doesn't have FIPS codes, but I can join it with this other dataset that does have FIPS codes.
- lars512 16y agoI likewise feel that this type of list of data sources fits a data collecting/hoarding mentality, rather than a problem solving one. It doesn't help me think of interesting things to do with the data.
- buddydvd 16y agoOpen datasets are hard to come by. It's potentially easier to find problems to solve by looking at the available datasets than seeking datasets for the problems you wish to solve.
- physcab 16y agoWhen you want to create a new website do you start by looking at a bunch of clip art and images? Browsing through datasets such as the ones listed in this thread leaves me overwhelmed. I've never had any difficulty finding open datasets. If there is a dataset I need that doesn't exist or costs money, I find a way to create it from scratch.
- spiffytech 16y agoDatasets aren't always quested for. Sometimes you want a specific dataset to solve a specific problem, and sometimes you'll take any dataset just to see what you can learn, or to make interesting infographics. Lists like this help the latter situation.
- espeed 16y agoLinked Data Sets http://www.w3.org/wiki/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets http://www.w3.org/wiki/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingO... Web Services Directory http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?sort=mashups http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?sort=mashups
- nowarninglabel 16y agoAt http://build.kiva.org http://build.kiva.org there are some nice datasets in the "data snapshots" section. I have high hopes we will be releasing a lot more data.
- Maro 16y agoThere's a startup called kaggle.com that is all about hosting data mining competitions around datasets, like netflix.
- iamelgringo 16y agoHackers & Founders SV is hosting a hackathon[1] in two weeks at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. It's going to be geared towards working with Factual's open data API. Factual's[2] goal is to provide an API to connect all those available data sets, and they have a fairly impressive list of data sets available. Factual is very interested in hearing what datasets you want to work with, and they are willing to bust ass to get them available before the hackathon. We still have around 40 RSVP slots open. You can register here: http://factualhackathon.eventbrite.com/ http://factualhackathon.eventbrite.com/ </shameless plug> [1] http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/16535156/ http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/16535156/ [2] http://www.factual.com/ http://www.factual.com/ [3] http://factualhackathon.eventbrite.com/ http://factualhackathon.eventbrite.com/
- spoiledtechie 16y agohow does factual make their money?
- iamelgringo 16y agoIt's free for developers, but if you want premium access, or if you're a large corporation, then they have a paid version.
- bOR_ 16y agohttp://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index For sentimental value: HIV sequence data (and other data) from 1980 till now. Did my thesis on these ;-). In general, there is an enormous amount of gene sequence data around, not just HIV. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/ Whole genome sequences of eukaryotes (including humans): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/leuks.cgi http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/leuks.cgi
- Anon84 16y agoIs there any HIV sequence data indexed by patient? I mean, sequences of strains extracted from the same patient at time points in time? I would email you directly about this, but you don't have any contact information :(
- mrzerga 16y agomicrosoft azure - they have some large datasets...
- svag 16y agoPrevious discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165497 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165497 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764982 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764982 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024966 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024966
- arethuza 16y agoUK Government data sets: http://data.gov.uk/ http://data.gov.uk/
- thesuperformula 16y agoYou can find many large datasets here, http://beta.fcc.gov/data/download-fcc-datasets http://beta.fcc.gov/data/download-fcc-datasets , some are over a gigabyte.
- drblast 16y agoEdit: Whoops, I thought this was an "Ask HN." The below post still stands for anyone who finds it useful. The U.S. Census has an extremely well-documented large data set: http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/ http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/ And the documentation is here: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf The software that they provide to go through the data is crappy, however (90's era). I have an equally crappy but more useful to a computer scientist Common Lisp program that will pull out specific fields from the data set based on a list of field names. If you want that, I can dig it up for you. Also, before you start parsing this, it's worthwhile to read the documentation to find out how the files are laid out, and what each field really means. These files are not relational databases, so if you're looking at it through those lenses, confusion will result. In particular, some things are already aggregated within the data set.
- shafqat 16y agoWe provide API access to more than 20 million articles (headlines, excerpts). People have done all sorts of interesting things with it - http://platform.newscred.com http://platform.newscred.com.