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Data

Links to online datasets:

Repositories & Search Engines

  • DataBib
  • Registry of research data repositories
  • Search data catalogues
  • Open Access Directory
  • The Data Hub
  • Gapminder
  • Google Public Data Explorer
  • Google Trends
  • Amazon AWS Public Data Sets
  • Quora List (lots of sources)
  • Github List (lots of sources)

Mapping

  • GoGeo (EDINA & JISC)
  • Gisco (Mapping part of Eurostat)
  • Global Administrative Areas (GADM)
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Geofabrik (good for downloading OSM)
  • ONS Geoportal (UK)
  • OS Outlines (UK)
  • Edina Census (UK)
  • Natural Earth
  • Knoema
  • Yahoo GeoPlanet

Government

  • World Bank
  • UN Data
  • EU Data
  • Eurostat
  • Africa Open Data
  • Australia Open Data
  • Greece Data Portal
  • Hong Kong Portal
  • India  Data Portal
  • Kenya Open Data
  • New Zealand

US-specific

  • US Government Data (Federal)
  • US Health Data
  • US Recovery Data
  • Boston
  • Chicago
  • New York
  • New York Open Data
  • Seattle

UK-specific

  • UK Government Data
  • UK Data Service (Census and Social)
  • Nomis (2011 Census and Labour Market)
  • The London Data Store
  • Ordnance Survey Open Data
  • Birmingham
  • Greater Manchester
  • Salford Open Data
  • Guardian Data Blog
  • Election results
  • Police Data

Topic-based

  • Global Health Data Exchange
  • Berkeley Earth Dataset
  • NASA Datasets
  • International Aid Transparency
  • Clean Energy Datasets
  • Open Energy Info
  • R Practice Sets
  • Wikipedia Databases

News Feeds

  • FCO news feeds
  • BBC news feeds (mobile)
  • BBC news feeds

Data for Machine Learning

  • List of computer vision image sets

Data science competitions

  • Kaggle
  • TREC (NIST annual TextREtrieval Conference)

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