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Dataset of languages and where they are spoken (sub-national)
I am looking for a dataset describing (nearly) all languages, and where they are spoken.
Bonus if the areas are linked to Geonames or another mainstream geographical dataset. Polygons are also OK.
It does not need to be a 1-1 mapping, as many places…
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how does add123.com get their data?
add123.com (d/b/a AutoDataDirect, Inc) lets you look up vehicle registration information with a license plate number. That information is protected under the Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, however, I'm not interested in that information…
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Alternative to GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification)?
I recently heard of GTFS as a specification for the times and geographic information regarding transit networks. It is initially used by Google to integrate them into Google Maps but is now made to be a standard.
I understood there are a number of…
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Is there an API for the Oscars/Academy Awards that lists past winners as well as current nominees?
I'm not looking for a page scraper but an actual API I can use that returns (preferably) JSON or XML. An example would be a request to return all the nominees for Best Picture in 2014.
The Oscar site itself has a page to search their database…
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What Linked Data serialization format to choose for our (now CSV) open data?
We have open data as a CSV file, about 200k lines, columns are mostly text.
In order to make it into Linked Data and be easily reusable by as many mashups/apps/etc as possible, we want to propose another format, not CSV.
I have found the…
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Open company data for Germany?
OpenCorporates doesn't have data for German companies (yet?).
Is there a source with open data for German companies?
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Census API data across superior geographies
I am trying to populate a GeoJSON layer of blockgroups in Leaflet with attribute data pulled live from the Census API.
My GeoJSON has the full FIPS code for the blockgroups as an attribute. That is, each feature has the concatenation of State,…
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Open company data for the Netherlands
The Dutch company register at kvk.nl doesn't have an API.
Where can I find open company data for the Netherlands? Ideally with an API.
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Categories and varieties of Open Data licensing?
My background with open/free licensing is only within FOSS. An example of category differences within FOSS is Copyleft/Permissive. There is a variety of licenses even within these categories. GPL, MIT License, and Apache License are the first that…
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What is the governance of the US Government's Project Open Data?
The US Government just launched Project Open Data on GitHub, which includes best practices, free tools to accelerate adoption of open data practices, and common core metadata for the federal government. What is the planned governance of this effort?…
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CKAN database scheme
I'm doing some research and I would like to learn how CKAN manages data, in particular, I would like to learn its database scheme.
Do you know where I can find it?
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Indian caste dataset
I'm looking for a dataset containing:
list of Indian last names
list of Indian castes
for each last name, the probability to belongs to each caste.
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Where can I find all cities, regions and cantons of Switzerland?
I am interested in finding all cities, regions and cantons of Switzerland. Where can I find them?
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Is there a database that provides lengths of books?
I want to test some hypotheses regarding the length of books and their review distributions. I imagine if the data exists, it probably records the number of pages per book, but words would be ideal. If not an open datasource, is there a clever way…
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How to make a successful FOIA request?
There are several questions regarding making a US "Freedom of Information Act" reqest (FOIA) for data:
What is the best way to request machine readable data from a FOIA request? - (this question and answers are particulary useful).
Should I…
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