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Need sample E-commerce order data

Is there any sample data for Ecommerce orders? What I need is Order no, Customer details, address, ratings by same customer, delivery times etc. I need it this for data analysis project i am doing. These need not be really true, like the names and…
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Database with the historical prices of most popular products in U.S.?

Is there an open database that would contained the historical prices of the most popular products in U.S.? At best with the product classification, so that it would be possible to make analysis, how prices of various product groups have changed in…
user139
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What examples are there of Linked Data/RDF being used for open data applications?

I like to criticise strong linked data (i.e. not just REST/HATEOAS) for being impractical and too strongly based in academia. Now, I want to be proven wrong: have any end-user open data applications been built on RDF? By end user application, I…
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Map of Orange County (CA) buildings

I'm plotting a map of the Los Angeles metro area, and I'm using TileMill. I've loaded different layers for the geographical data, and wanted to add buildings as well. So I found this map for the LA county link which does exactly what I need. But I…
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Is there an API or global database for sports events that is used by famous sports websites?

I'm trying to know whether websites like this one Example for sports website connect to a global database or use an API to get each transaction that happens in sports events like goals, fouls, .. etc or does the website admin adds these data…
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What needs to be done to be 4 or 5-star open data?

I work at a University which is trying to open up some of its data. We make some of our data available as PDF or Excel documents. The 5-star deployment scheme has been referenced a fair bit in Europe and I'm beginning to meet the question of "how do…
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Open data community ideation tools?

Which communities are doing a good job on capturing community ideas around open gov / civic technology / policy improvements? Additional Questions? If you were to break out ideation categories, how would you define these realms? Suggestions on ways…
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Free reusable aerial photography of the whole world

OpenStreetMap is a freely reusable map of the world. I am looking for a similar effort, but concentrating on vertical aerial photographs: Requirements: Free to download synthesized orthophotomaps Free to download original photographs and…
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how to get drug database for free?

where can I download from a database of drugs that will contain the information about drug indications/use, side effects, and drug interaction for free? Please tell me if you know. I want to use that for my online pharmacy store. Or I want to know…
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Scraping columns from a PDF

We are trying to capture rows from PDF tables & output them as lines of JSON - can anyone suggest a good technique for separating columns? Ideally using the tools linked below. Specifically this is part of the Map the Banks Mission 830, to turn the…
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Data sets for teaching

I'll be giving a (short) introductory course for Data Science within a couple of months. One of my ideas was, instead of giving lectures on theoretic aspects of it (which of course are important), make people actually get their hands dirty with data…
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What are the standards for data in terms of Open APIs?

Update: It appears there have been two directions in terms of answering this question. Data interchange (ex. HTTP, FTP, P2P), and data formatting (ex. JSON, XML, CSV). My original question was about data interchange. However, it would be helpful to…
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Database with English words with grammatical classification?

Is there open database with English words with grammatical classification? I mean the list of words, with the information, which part of speech this word is (f.e. verb, noun, pronoun etc.).
user139
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Police precinct jurisdiction data for joining UCR with census

The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) contains crime data by individual police agency: http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/. These agencies have jurisdiction over a town or city, but for any particular city, there are often multiple census areas (a city, a city…
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Does anyone know of a U.S. city that has crime data with location?

More specifically I want to repeat this study for another city than Chicago: http://blog.uber.com/chicagotaxicrime The data for Chicago: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-present/ijzp-q8t2 Edit 1: Although I forgot to…
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