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ATM locations in UK and/or Ireland
I know lots of organizations and websites are publishing some of these but is there an open dataset with at a minimum of location and operator for ATMs in the UK and possible Ireland?
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Data set of news articles and scientific journals
I am working on a project in NLP area and in order to test the result I need to compare it against different data sources. I already have NYTimes data source. So,
I am looking for another news source data set easily available online. I have heard of…
mousecoder
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Wind energy vs. wind speed
Can anyone point me to logs of energy generated by a wind farm/turbine
vs. wind speed, over a year or two? 10% accuracy would be plenty. Data for flat land, not offshore, would be good, south Germany ideal.
(By "energy" I mean Megawatt-hours (MWh)…
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Query medicine descriptions API
I am looking for publicly available API for querying medicine's descriptions. For example, if I supply Carbidopa/Levodopa or Sinemet the expected return data (in json or xml format) is a simple description such as this:
Levodopa and carbidopa are…
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Graph of Landsat Downloads?
Where can I find find a graph of Landsat downloads, to show the effect free access has had?
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How do I get a full list of datasets available on Data.Gov using the CKAN API?
I'm fairly new to python, but I've been struggling to get anything more than ten results from a package_list request from Data.Gov's CKAN API. Here's what I'm using:
response = urlopen('http://catalog.data.gov/api/3/action/package_list')
assert…
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Are there publicly available sources listing uses of open data?
It would be very valuable for government officials and the public to be able to track the uses of open data sets. Are there sources that currently do this and make the information available to the public? This could be either types of uses or…
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Open data on public opinion polls (Gallup, PEW, and others)
Many international surveys are available for free:
http://guides.library.yale.edu/pubopinion
http://www.ciser.cornell.edu/info/polls.shtml
However, I didn't find the data from major poll agencies, such as Gallup and PEW, in a convenient format.…
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Looking for US County elevation data
I'd like to explore the connection between altitude and suicide rates discussed in the 2011 paper, Positive Association between Altitude and Suicide in 2584 U.S. Counties.
I can get some data for the suicide rates from the CDC WISQARS site, though…
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Dataset of historical economic forecasts
Where could I get a dataset of economic forecasts made over years? For instance, the history of predictions for GDP, current accounts, and other key national variables by the World Bank and IMF? Or similar information from governments?
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London rail and tube station locations
I'm looking for a data set of rail and tube stations in the Transport for London network, specifically, stations where one could use an Oyster card.
I'm interested in the locations of these stations so the data should either include coordinates or…
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What would be particularly useful basic APIs for the US Federal Government to offer?
There are already certain basic APIs for census tracts, school districts, energy costs, a range of geo data, zip codes, etc.
What I'm wondering is what would be other fundamental web services that the government should make available? It would be…
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Music lyrics timing data
I wonder if there is a database or technique of collecting the timings of a song?
I found this post linking to MusicXML. However, it seems MusicXML is for sheet music. I am looking for data relating to music of the more general variety.
I'm looking…
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Flood Plain API
I want to be able to send an address anywhere in the USA and get back flood risk data.
FEMA houses flood plain maps. If you give them an address, you just get a map, and you have to look at it to find the location's flood risk by hand.
You can do…
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Electricity and (space) heating load curves for a city
I want to get a visual feeling for the distribution of electricity and heating load over the year. There are national load curves, then there are reference load curves for individual (mainly residential) buildings. But I would like to get something…
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