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Database of Ingress portals
Ingress is a game where users contribute "portals".
Each portal has:
Coordinates
Name, for instance "Eiffel Tower"
Picture
Is there a database of all portals, or an API to find portals at least in a given area?
What I mostly need is coordinates,…
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FIFA 2014 tweets dataset for academic project
I am looking to run a Map Reduce framework and do some analysis on a Twitter dataset for the FIFA 2014 World Cup event. I couldn't find a place to get these datasets for free. Can someone suggest a place to get at least a sample of this dataset for…
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Looking for datasets of tumor or cancer growth
We are having a school project on a mathematical model of tumor growth. We would like to compare our model to the real data. Despite a lot of search we couldn't find any open data on the web. Hence, can anyone recommend a resource for the datasets…
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Where I can find data to help build family trees?
I need public data about persons / parent-child relationships, especially relating to the past. I am creating an awesome family tree app, and I want to help people to build their extended family tree.
Where I am able to reach public global / local…
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Does data stored in Mendeley qualify as open data?
I am curious as to what makes a database open. Specifically, on another SE site I have been in discussions with a developer at Mendeley (a reference manager and social network) about whether it qualifies as FOSS. His contention is that Mendeley is…
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Open data sets about software development: code quality, defect rate, programming languages?
I'm looking for open freely available data sets related to software development quality: code quality, defect rates, comparison across programming languages. Where/how can I find such data sets?
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College student suicide dataset
I am looking for a dataset listing college student suicides (preferably in the US) with as many following fields as possible:
college name
date/time
age
gender
major/minor
reason of suicide
method of suicide
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Open dataset on manned space missions
Are there any open datasets about manned space missions? I'm looking for basic information like name and nationality of the astronauts or cosmonauts, launcher, goals, time in space, results, and so on.
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Dataset of football (soccer) penalties
I'm looking for a soccer penalty dataset containing as many following fields as possible:
name of the player who shot the penalty
name of the goalkeeper
penalty outcome (success/fail)
ball position, i.e. where player placed the ball (center, bottom…
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What is the best source of open data on sea level rise in Bangladesh and India?
I am trying to determine the level of rise in sea levels in coastal areas of India and Bangladesh. I was wondering if anyone knew the best sources of open data--mean local sea level, mean local tide level--for this type of information.
From what I…
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High resolution population density maps in the US
I want to write a districting algorithm like the one found on RangeVoting.org:
It looks like they have a pretty good source of population density. Is there somewhere I can find a similar source of data?
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How to get all the DrugList
I want to fetch all the drugList, lets say -> DrugName, Manufacturer, Prescribed for, Description.
I tried using https://api.fda.gov/drug/event.json?count=patient.drug.openfda.manufacturer_name.exact It jst fetch the high level manufacturer name now…
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Standards for documenting use caveats?
One of the problems with distributing data is that people think they understand it, and try to use it in ways that may be incompatable with the files.
Examples:
Years ago, one of the scientists I work with tried doing a longitudinal study of solar…
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Are there any international non-governmental data aggregators?
We are probably all familiar with Manyeyes and google public data explorer but those are always based on governmental Statistics bureau or OECD data. Are there any projects to aggregate data that is being produced by NGOs, consulting companies &…
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Format for exchanging open data catalogs
There are a number of catalogs of open data portals out there. Like many well intended efforts, many of them go stale for long periods of time or altogether.
One way to combat this problem is to have an easily exchangeable format (e.g., CSV) for the…
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