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Real-time gunshot detection data?
Was curious whether anyone had successfully obtained access to streaming data from any municipality that uses a "shots fired" detection system like this one.
According to their own documentation, the system itself is capable of generating an xml…
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What data source for cloud coverage available with forecast and how to parse it?
I need to find good and reliable data source of cloud coverage (to use GIS) with forecast for few days and be able to parse it.
Do you know good one? I know that NOAA provides weather data, but couldn't find any data of clouds.
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Recommended BitTorrent tracker/index for dataset release?
I have a large dataset which I plan to release to the public (around 80GB compressed, 1TB uncompressed), and after considering my options it appears that using the BitTorrent protocol would be the best way to go about this. However, the BitTorrent…
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Data on hurricanes?
As a programmer and meteorology enthusiast, I'd love to be able to get latitude/longitude of tropical storms/hurricanes (specifically in the Atlantic). Does anyone know of websites that can provide information regarding tropical activity? I looked…
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Data on glaciers
I am looking for historical and current data on glaciers. Data such as glacier length changes, mass balances, imagery, flow speed, outline, runoff, etc. Does anyone know websites and databases providing these data?
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Roadworks datasets or API services
Hi guys I need to integrate into my app data about road conditions for major cities in Europe and U.S. initially. I'm looking for data about roadworks mainly but would be cool to find a feed for road conditions and hazards like uneven surfaces or…
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postal code boundaries for Yukon Territory, Canada
can you download spatial data representing postal code boundaries for Yukon Territory, Canada?
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A database for dog, cat and other pet names?
When it comes to tracking the popularity and distribution of human names over time, Wolfram Alpha seems to be the place to go. But where to find this info for pets?
In 2008, the LA Times put together an interesting project on this topic called…
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Examples of (near) real-time energy dashboards or portals
What are some examples of real-time or live data dashboards related to consumption, production or transmission of energy?
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Data with trips
Any idea if there`s any source from where I can get publicly available data of trip details?
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Vaccination policies
I am looking for a data set containing vaccination policies by country, and if possible by year. Ideally, the vaccination policy would be stored in some machine-readable format.
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Employee Churn dataset?
I am looking for a dataset for Employee churn/Labor Turnover prediction. I looked around but couldn't find any relevant dataset to download. Following are some of the features I am looking in the dataset (Its not mandatory feature set but anything…
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Finding an index of food prices
I'm trying to find an open index of food prices [like the food one might find at a grocery store], either bulk prices or prices that might be in the store. Any ideas?
EDIT: I'm looking to compare regional prices of food staples in order to compare…
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People names by country
I'm building an application where I will need to sort a persons nationality according to his/her name, is there any such dataset for this somewhere?
It would be great to have something like:
Name Country
Pierre France
Carlos …
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Formats of texts from wikisource?
In what formats can I retrieve texts from wikisource?
The obvious format is the HTML they deliver for reading, but the HTML source is very layout oriented and messy.
Is there a downloadable source format available that is more logical (XML or wiki…
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