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Deaths by falling coconuts
I am looking for the number of deaths caused by the natural fall of coconuts from trees each year.
Number of deaths each year worldwide, estimated if needed
Bonus for extra information about each death, such as country and date
Must exclude…
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Are Creative Commons licenses suitable for data?
Since OpenStreetMap has migrated from CC BY-SA to the newly created ODbL for its database, I have lived under the impression that the CC-family of licenses are - at least - not ideal for use with data. Here a little more
background story, abridged…
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Is there a specification for versioning a dataset?
In computer software, semantic versioning (or something like it) is something of a standard for how to version software releases. The Major.Minor.Patch semantics make clear how big of a change has occurred between the present and an earlier release.…
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How to get soccer players Wikipedia URL?
I'd like to grab as many soccer players names and their Wikipedia URL. For example:
"David Beckham": 'David_Beckham',
"Wayne Rooney": 'Wayne_Rooney'
The first portion is their name and the second is the extension for their Wikipedia page.
I've…
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Validity, Utility and Cost of Clinical Tests
Medical tests are characterized by validity, utility and cost:
Validity is the probability that the test results are correct.
Utility is the usefulness of having correct results (e.g. how much life can be gained by taking a test, finding out that…
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How to get list of all items that have a particular property, in Wikidata?
How collect Wikidata's entities by a certain property?
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What is the major difference between Open data and Linked data?
Although this is not an apple to apple comparison and there is significant overlap i would like to know examples or specific cases where a data set falls into either category but not both. Can data be still called linked if it has a certain…
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Is a spoken digit dataset available?
Is a labeled dataset of spoken digits, that means of people saying "zero", "one", "two", three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", or "nine" available?
I would also be interested in such a dataset in another language.
I want to try some…
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Where can I download photoperiod (daylength) data?
I'm looking to download photoperiod (day length) data for a variety of locations in Europe on a variety of dates. For each date and locations, I need to the number of hours of daylight.
Ideally, the data would have the following attributes:
High…
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Is there a better public version of USA's Social Security Death Master File?
USA data on death can be obtained via Social Security as SSDI (death index) and SSDMF (death master file).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index
One site http://ssdmf.info offers the data as text file.
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Is there a public…
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Where can I find examples of open data being used in business?
I'm not looking for apps built in hackathons - but examples of open data used in real business, or even better businesses built around open data itself (commercial entities that make money, not non profits)
Do you know of any such examples or…
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Where to upload open data? (no online data editing needed)
I have CSV and RDF files that I would like to upload somewhere so that everyone can download them.
What is the most appropriate website for this?
I need at least:
Easily upload, just select the license, enter some info and upload the file. No need…
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Standards for self-documenting text files?
One of the advantages of most scientific file formats is that you have a block of attached metadata that tells a reader how to read / interpret the file (what the fields are, for the most part -- how they're encoded, what their meaning is, etc. …
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Database of English words difficulty
Data request
I am looking for a database that describes the "difficulty" of each English word.
Difficulty of a word is not easy to define, but it is probably a mix of:
Level of study needed to understand the signified meaning
Time it takes for a…
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Why isn't RDF more popular within the private sector?
I've learned about the idea of storing data in the form of triples not too long ago. This is essentially what RDF allows and since I've started using this to model my data, I've never really looked back to less interoperable data models. I know RDF…
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