Awesome Public Datasets

This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers, and user reponses. Most of the data sets listed below are free, however, some are not. This list comes from https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets.

Climate

Australian Weather: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/
Climate data: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/#datter and ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/
Global climate data since 1929: http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate
NOAA Bering Sea Climate: http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov/
NOAA climate datasets: http://ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/quick-links
WU Historical Weather Worldwide: http://www.wunderground.com/history/index.html

Economics

American Economic Ass. (AEA): http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/toc.php?show=complete
EconData (UMD): http://inforumweb.umd.edu/econdata/econdata.html
Internet Product Code Database: http://www.upcdatabase.com/
World bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator

Energy

AMPds: http://ampds.org/
BLUEd: http://nilm.cmubi.org/
COMBED: http://combed.github.io/
Dataport: https://dataport.pecanstreet.org/
ECO: http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/res/show.html?what=eco-data
iAWE: http://iawe.github.io/
HFED: http://hfed.github.io/
Plaid: http://plaidplug.com/
REDD: http://redd.csail.mit.edu/
UK-Dale: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dk3810/data/

Finance

CBOE Futures Exchange: http://cfe.cboe.com/Data/
Google Finance: https://www.google.com/finance
Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
NASDAQ: https://data.nasdaq.com/
OANDA: http://www.oanda.com/
OSU Financial data: http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/osudata.htm or http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/fdf/osudata.htm
Quandl: http://www.quandl.com/
St Louis Federal: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/

Biology

CRCNS: http://crcns.org/data-sets
Gene Expression Omnibus: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/
Human Microbiome Project: http://www.hmpdacc.org/reference_genomes/reference_genomes.php
MIT Cancer Genomics Data: http://www.broadinstitute.org/cgi-bin/cancer/datasets.cgi
NIH Microarray data: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE6532/
Protein structure: http://www.infobiotic.net/PSPbenchmarks/
Protein Data Bank: http://pdb.org/
Public Gene Data: http://www.pubgene.org/
Stanford Microarray Data: http://smd.stanford.edu/
UniGene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/unigene
The Personal Genome Project: http://www.personalgenomes.org/ or https://my.pgp-hms.org/public_genetic_data
1000 Genomes: http://www.1000genomes.org/data
UCSC Public Data: http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html

Physics

NASA: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/obtaining_data.html

Healthcare

EHDP Large Health Data Sets: http://www.ehdp.com/vitalnet/datasets.htm
Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/data/
Medicare Data File: http://go.cms.gov/19xxPN4

GeoSpace/GIS

EOSDIS: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/sets/browse
Factual Global Location Data: http://www.factual.com/
Geo Spatial Data: http://geodacenter.asu.edu/datalist/
OpenStreetMap (a free map worldwide): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
GeoNames (over eight million placenames): http://www.geonames.org/
BODC (marine data of nearly 22,000 oceanographic vars): http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/where_to_find_data/
GADM (Global Administrative Areas database): http://www.gadm.org/
twofishes (Foursquare's coarse geocoder): https://github.com/foursquare/twofishes
Natural Earth (vectors and rasters of the world): http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
tz_world (timezone polygons): http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/
TIGER/Line (official United States boundaries and roads): http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html

Transportation

Airlines Data (2009 ASA Challenge): http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/the-data.html
Bike Share Data Systems: https://github.com/BetaNYC/Bike-Share-Data-Best-Practices/wiki/Bike-Share-Data-Systems
Edge data for US domestic flights 1990 to 2009: http://data.memect.com/?p=229
Half a million Hubway rides: http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/trip-history-data/
NYC Taxi Trip Data 2013 (FOIA/FOIL): https://archive.org/details/nycTaxiTripData2013
OpenFlights (airport, airline and route data): http://openflights.org/data.html
RITA Airline On-Time Performance Data: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?DB_ID=120
RITA transport data collection: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DataIndex.asp
Transport for London: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-feeds
U.S. Freight Analysis Framework: http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm
Marine Traffic - ship tracks, port calls and more: https://www.marinetraffic.com/de/p/api-services

Government

Archive-it: : https://www.archive-it.org/explore?show=Collections
Australia: https://data.gov.au/
Australia: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3301.02009?OpenDocument
Canada: http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=5BCD274E-1
Chicago: https://data.cityofchicago.org/
FDA: https://open.fda.gov/index.html
Fed Stats: http://www.fedstats.gov/cgi-bin/A2Z.cgi
Guardian world governments: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data
HUD: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/pdrdatas.html
London Datastore, U.K: http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset
Glasgow, Scotland, UK: http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/
Netherlands: https://data.overheid.nl/
New Zealand: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats.aspx
NYC betanyc: http://betanyc.us/
NYC Open Data: http://nycplatform.socrata.com/
OECD: http://www.oecd.org/document/0,3746,en_2649_201185_46462759_1_1_1_1,00.html
RITA: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/OT_Delay/OT_DelayCause1.asp
San Francisco Data sets: http://datasf.org/
The World Bank: http://wdronline.worldbank.org/
U.K. Government Data: http://data.gov.uk/data
U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/data.html
U.S. American Community Survey: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_release_info/
U.S. Federal Government Agencies: http://www.data.gov/metric
U.S. Federal Government Data Catalog: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset
U.S. Open Government: http://www.data.gov/open-gov/
UK 2011 Census Open Atlas Project: http://www.alex-singleton.com/2011-census-open-atlas-project/
United Nations: http://data.un.org/
US CDC Public Health datasets: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ftp_data.htm
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India: http://www.data.gov.in/

Data Challenges

Challenges in Machine Learning: http://www.chalearn.org/
ICWSM Data Challenge (since 2009): http://icwsm.cs.umbc.edu/
Kaggle Competition Data: http://www.kaggle.com/
KDD Cup by Tencent 2012: https://www.kddcup2012.org/
Netflix Prize: http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
Yelp Dataset Challenge: http://www.yelp.com/dataset_challenge

Machine Learning

eBay Online Auctions: http://www.modelingonlineauctions.com/datasets
IMDb database: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
Keel Repository: http://sci2s.ugr.es/keel/datasets.php
Lending Club Loan Data: https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action
Machine Learning Data Set Repository: http://mldata.org/
Million Song Dataset: http://blog.echonest.com/post/3639160982/million-song-dataset
More Song Datasets: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/pages/additional-datasets
MovieLens Data Sets: http://datahub.io/dataset/movielens
RDataMining R and Data Mining ebook data: http://www.rdatamining.com/data
Registered meteorites on Earth: http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/registered-meteorites-that-has-impacted-on-earth-visualized
SF restaurants dataset: http://missionlocal.org/san-francisco-restaurant-health-inspections/
UCI Machine Learning Repository: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
University of Toronto Delve Datasets: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~delve/data/datasets.html
Yahoo Ratings and Classification Data: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r

Natural Language

40 Million Entities in Context: https://code.google.com/p/wiki-links/downloads/list
ClueWeb09 FACC: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb09/FACC1/
ClueWeb12 FACC: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb12/FACC1/
Flickr personal taxonomies: http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/downloads/flickr/flickr_taxonomies.html
Google Books Ngrams: http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/8172056142375670
Google Web 5gram, 2006 (1T): https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T13
Gutenberg eBooks List: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs
Hansards: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/download/hansard/
Machine Translation: http://statmt.org/wmt11/translation-task.html#download
SMS Spam Collection: http://www.dt.fee.unicamp.br/~tiago/smsspamcollection/
USENET corpus: http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/usenetcorpus.download.html
WordNet: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/download/

Image Processing

2GB of photos of cats: http://137.189.35.203/WebUI/CatDatabase/catData.html
Face Recognition Benchmark: http://www.face-rec.org/databases/
ImageNet: http://www.image-net.org/

Time Series

Time Series data Library: https://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=provider:tsdl
UC Riverside Time Series: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/time_series_data/

Social Sciences

China Hotel Checkin/out data: http://www.360doc.com/content/13/1105/13/7863900_326788919.shtml
CMU Enron Email: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/
Facebook Social Networks (since 2007): http://law.di.unimi.it/datasets.php
Facebook100 (2005): https://archive.org/details/oxford-2005-facebook-matrix
Foursquare (2010,2011): http://www.public.asu.edu/~hgao16/dataset.html
Foursquare (UMN/Sarwat, 2013): https://archive.org/details/201309_foursquare_dataset_umn
General Social Survey (GSS): http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/
GetGlue (users rating TV shows): http://bit.ly/1aL8XS0
GitHub Archive: http://www.githubarchive.org/
ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp
Mobile Social Networks (UMASS): https://kdl.cs.umass.edu/display/public/Mobile+Social+Networks
PewResearch Internet Project: http://www.pewinternet.org/datasets/pages/2/
Social Networking: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jelsas/data/ancestry.com/
SourceForge Graph: http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Data/data.html
Titanic Survival Data Set: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets/blob/master/Datasets/titanic.csv.zip
Twitter Graph: http://an.kaist.ac.kr/traces/WWW2010.html
UC Berkeley's D-Lab Achive: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/
UCLA Social Sciences Data Archive: http://dataarchives.ss.ucla.edu/Home.DataPortals.htm
UNIMI Social Network Datasets: http://law.di.unimi.it/datasets.php
Universities Worldwide: http://univ.cc/
UPJOHN for Employment Research: http://www.upjohn.org/erdc/erdc.html
Yahoo Graph and Social Data: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=g
Youtube Graph (2007,2008): http://netsg.cs.sfu.ca/youtubedata/

Complex Networks

CrossRef DOI URLs: https://archive.org/details/doi-urls
DBLP Citation dataset: https://kdl.cs.umass.edu/display/public/DBLP
NBER Patent Citations: http://nber.org/patents/
NIST complex networks data collection: http://math.nist.gov/~RPozo/complex_datasets.html
Protein-protein interaction network: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/bio/Yeast/Yeast.htm
PyPI and Maven Dependency Network: http://ogirardot.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/sharing-pypimaven-dependency-data/
Scopus Citation Database: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus
Stanford GraphBase (Steven Skiena): http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~algorith/implement/graphbase/implement.shtml
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection: http://snap.stanford.edu/data/
The Koblenz Network Collection: http://konect.uni-koblenz.de/
UCI Network Data Repository: http://networkdata.ics.uci.edu/resources.php
UFL sparse matrix collection: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/
The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics (UNIMI): http://law.di.unimi.it/datasets.php
WSU Graph Database: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/mgd/gdb.html

Computer Networks

3.5B Web Pages: http://www.bigdatanews.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-set-3-5-billion-web-pages-made-available-for-all-of-us
53.5B Web clicks: http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/click-dataset
CAIDA Internet Datasets: http://www.caida.org/data/overview/
ClueWeb09: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb09/
ClueWeb12: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb12/
CommonCrawl Web Data: http://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/
Dartmouth CRAWDAD Wireless datasets: http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/
OpenMobileData (MobiPerf): https://console.developers.google.com/storage/openmobiledata_public/
UCSD Network Telescope: http://www.caida.org/projects/network_telescope/

Museums

Cooper-Hewitt's Collection Database: https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection
Tate Collection metadata: https://github.com/tategallery/collection
Minneapolis Institute of Arts metadata: https://github.com/artsmia/collection
The Getty vocabularies: http://vocab.getty.edu

Data SEs

Academic Torrents: http://academictorrents.com/
Datahub.io: http://datahub.io/dataset
DataMarket: https://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=all
Harvard Dataverse: http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/
Statista: http://www.statista.com/
Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/

Public Domains

Amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
Archive.org Datasets: https://archive.org/details/datasets
CMU JASA data archive: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/jasadata/
CMU StatLab collections: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
Data360: http://www.data360.org/index.aspx
Datamob.org: http://datamob.org/datasets
Google: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
infochimps: http://www.infochimps.com/
KDNuggets Data Collections: http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html
Numbray: http://numbrary.com/
RevolutionAnalytics Collection: http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/subscriptions/datasets/
Sample R data sets: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/datasets/html/00Index.html
Stats4Stem R data sets: http://www.stats4stem.org/data-sets.html
StatSci.org: http://www.statsci.org/datasets.html
The Washington Post List: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/data/datapost.html
UCLA SOCR data collection: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_Data
UFO Reports: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports.html
Wikileaks 911 pager intercepts: http://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html
Yahoo Webscope: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php

Complementary Collections

DataWrangling: http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web
Inside-r: http://www.inside-r.org/howto/finding-data-internet
Quora: http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
RS Collection 100+ : http://rs.io/2014/05/29/list-of-data-sets.html
StaTrek: http://hsiamin.com/posts/2014/10/23/leveraging-open-data-to-understand-urban-lives/

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