reddit has 'datasets' and 'opendata' groups that have a lot of
postings useful to those in the open data world. People also make
requests about data they are trying to find.
http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/ http://www.reddit.com/r/opendataRecent useful/interesting examples:
- Statistics Finland grants a universal, irrevocable right to the use
of the data published in its website
http://www.stat.fi/ajk/tiedotteet/2012/tiedote_002_2012-01-25_en.html- Open Data Strategy by the EC: “The best way to get value from data
is to give it away”
http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2011/12/23/open-data-strategy-by-the-european-commission-the-best-way-to-get-value-from-data-is-to-give-it-away/- Open Data for Africa platform has been launched by African
Development Bank with a lot of data on Africa in a single place
http://opendataforafrica.org/- France Open Data (352000 datasets)
http://www.data.gouv.fr/- 2010 Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) expenditure data
http://thestory.ie/2012/02/08/taoiseach-data/- Data files on 407 banks, between the dates of 2007 to 2009, on the
daily borrowing with the US Federal Reserve bank.
http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-christmas-miracle/- Fed Once-Secret Loan Crisis Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to
Public - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-23/fed-s-once-secret-data-compiled-by-bloomberg-released-to-public.html- John Snow’s famous cholera analysis data in modern GIS formats
http://www.r-bloggers.com/john-snow%E2%80%99s-famous-cholera-analysis-data-in-modern-gis-formats/- Mammal dataset from Weecology
http://www.r-bloggers.com/weecology-can-has-new-mammal-dataset/- Cone Welder Dataset, over 38,849 bird photos
http://cone.berkeley.edu/app/webroot/dataset/- USDA Food Nutrient Database: clutter-free JSON edition
http://ashleyw.co.uk/project/food-nutrient-database- 13 thousand data sets, 100 million time series, 600 million facts -
DataMarket blog
http://blog.datamarket.com/2011/01/23/13-thousand-data-sets-100-million-time-series-600-million-facts/- Amazon's AWS block storage devices can come pre-loaded with various
public datasets.
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/See also:
http://www.reddit.com/r/data/ http://www.reddit.com/r/visualization/-Glen Newton
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