Open Data Sets

A connection of mine recently shared a great resource with me for those of you who are aspiring data scientist or just love data. It's an open-source data science program that can be found here: http://datasciencemasters.org/.

Check out this great data repository compiled by the project:

Open Data

• List of Public Datasets - user-curated
• DBpedia - utilizing a large multi-domain ontology
• Public Data Sets on AWS - common web crawl corpus, NASA satellite imagery, Human Genome, Google Book NGrams, Wikipedia Traffic, Million Song Dataset, Federal Reserve Economic Data, PubChem, more.

Governmental Data

• Compendium of Governmental Open Data Sources
• Data.gov (USA)
• Africa Open Data
• US Census - Population Estimates and Projections, Nonemployer Statistics and County Business Patterns, Economic Indicators Time Series, more.

Non-Governmental Org Data

• The World Bank - business regulation measures, company-level data in emerging markets, household consumption patterns, World Development Indicators, World Bank finances
• ^Pew Research Center's Internet Project

Academic Data

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Data Portal

• Surveys of Economic Attitudes and Behavior
• Continuing Series of Consumer Surveys
• Historical and Contemporary Economic Processes and Indicators

Truly Random Data

• 200,000+ Jeopardy! Questions in a JSON file
• 10,000 annotated images of cats

Open Data Resource

• reddit r/datasets
• Open Data - Stack Exchange (discussion)

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Source: https://github.com/datasciencemasters/data