dataset_collections.md

Sebastian Raschka
Last updated: 09/29/2014

A collection of links to various free and open-source datasets.

## Sections

• Dataset repositories
• Datasets by topics
  • Images
  • Audio
  • Text
  • Natural sciences
  • Web, technology, and social networks
  • Historical data and human resources
  • Finance and companies
  • Government data and politics

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Dataset repositories

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• Kaggle - Kaggle, the leading platform for predictive modeling competitions.

• UCI MLR - UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

• google.com/publicdata - public data maintained by Google

• Freebase - A community-curated database of well-known people, places, and things

• mldata.org - machine learning data set repository for uploading and finding data sets

• Infochimps - a huge collection of large-sized data sets

• Amazon Web Services - Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.

• Databib - a searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data repositories.

• figshare - an online digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos.

• reddit r/datasets - datasets shared on reddit

• datahub - the free, powerful data management platform from the Open Knowledge Foundation

• Quandl - a search engine for numerical data

• enigma - a search engine for public records published by governments, companies and organizations.

Datasets by topics

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Images

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• Tiny Images Dataset - a dataset of 79,302,017 images, each being a 32x32 color image

• ImageNet - a searchable image database

• The Million Song Dataset - Audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.

• CAT Dataset - A dataset of 10,000 cat images

• Amsterdam Library of Object Images (ALOI) - A color image collection of one-thousand small objects, recorded for scientific purposes

Audio

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• Mobio - bi-modal (audio and video) data taken from 152 people

• Million Song Dataset - The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.

• Music Data Mining - A collection of research done on music analysis and links to various datasets.

Text

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• TechTC - Technion Repository of Text Categorization Datasets containing 300 labeled datasets with categorization difficulties indicated by baseline SVM accuracies.

• SMS Spam Collection - A public dataset of 5572 SMS messages that are labeled as either "spam" or "ham" (not spam).

• musiXmatch - A dataset of lyrics for the songs in the one million songs dataset. The lyrics are pre-processed and available as "bag of words" after stemming.

• Google books Ngram Viewer - The corpus of Google books as n-grams available for quick online queries or download.

Natural sciences

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• 1000 Genomes Project - A Deep Catalog of Human Genetic Variation

• Cancer Program Data Sets - a collection of genomic datasets

• Meteorites - Registered meteorites that have impacted on Earth

Web, technology, and social networks

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• The Wayback Machine - 80 terabytes of archived web crawl data available for research

• Social Network Analysis Interactive Dataset Library - a site that contains an accessible library of many of the 'open' social network analysis datasets

• SMS Spam Collection - A collection of 425 SMS spam messages was manually extracted from the Grumbletext Web site

• SNAP - Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

• Amazon Google Books Ngrams - A data set containing Google Books n-gram corpuses

• Click Dataset - A large dataset of about 53.5 billion HTTP requests made by users at Indiana University

• Common Crawl 2012 web corpus - A hyperlink graph of 3.5 billion web pages and 128 billion hyperlinks between these pages

• PyPi/Maven Dependency Data - State of the Maven/Java dependency graph and state of the PyPi/Python dependency graph.

Historical data and human resources

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• Titanic Survivors - dataset with 1313 samples and 10 features about Titanic survivors

• Pass rates, race & gender - Detailed data on pass rates, race, and gender for 2013

Finance and companies

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• Modeling Online Auctions - Datasets of bidding for different ebay auctions

• NYPD Crash Data Band-Aid - NYPD traffic crash data as a geocoded CSV

• aiHit Datasets - Information on random 10,000 UK companies sampled from aiHit DB

Government data and politics

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• United Nations Data about health, environment, energy.. for different nations

• United Stated

• Open Government Data List of cities/counties in the U.S. with open data, plus other countries involved in open-data project

• Survey Data from U.S.

• EconData - economic time series, produced by a number of U.S. Government agencies and distributed in a variety of formats and media

• USGovXML - USGovXML is an index to publicly available web services and XML data sources that are provided by the US government

• Nominate/vote data - Datasets including all the D-NOMINATE and W-NOMINATE scores