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Structured demographic, economic and geographic attributes of US States
I'm looking for long lists of structured demographic, economic, agricultural and/or geographic attributes of US States. For example:
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Running/Jogging Behavior/Activity Datasets (Amateur Runners Preferred)?
Does anyone know of open data sets about running behaviour/running activity? I'd love to find somewhere there are histories for individual runners, but even data about large numbers of runners (distance, pace, location, you name it) would be…
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Data management practices
Software has code repositories and package managers, so installation and maintenance are done in one line (or click).
What are practices for managing data, instead? Apart from manually organized directories with readme files inside, I found a couple…
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Is there a public web service that will provide hourly forecasts of the solar radiation (irradiance) for a given location?
We are looking for a weather forecasting service (ideally free) that will provide hourly values for at least the next 24 hours. In addition to the temperatures, we need values for the solar radiation (aka irradiance), or possibly…
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Global HIV Incidence Raw Data
All information I can find on global HIV incidence broken down into male/female categories is in the form of already processed charts. I've attempted to find a raw HIV dataset that breaks down into a number of categories (drug user, gender, country…
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ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2 data plus borders (e.g. as kml)
I am looking for a free or even commercial data source for ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2 data, ideally with border data (e.g. in kml). The ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2 data should contain the hierarchical relationships as shown in the following picture:
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open Big Data to solve cancer epidemiology challenge
I am a doctor and I am coordinator of a project that will call for innovative projects around challenges in the field of Big Data applied to Cancer Epidemiology. The specifity of the projects is to use open big datasets in order to serve them…
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Why is my scraper returning inconsistent results and timing out?
I've been building a scraper in python (using mechanize) to get a list of banks off of:
https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/ProfessionalRegisters.jspx
The scraper is:
https://github.com/bianca/mapaustralianbanks
1) I keep…
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Displaying Trust and Data Provenance?
What would be the most useful way to display data provenance on an open data site? Overarching statements on the site seem to be limited in that amongst many datasets, at least some will likely have data gaps or problems. In other cases, an open…
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Where can I find a downloadable grocery store food ingredient database / data set?
I'm looking for a downloadable ingredient database / data set. I'd like to be able to write my own query to the data set, eliminating potentially harmful ingredients to see what would be potentially healthy to eat.
Does such a downloadable data set…
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Where to find number of companies by year revenue?
I'm trying to find number of companies which reach a certain scale of revenue per year. For example in USA is x companies with revenue $100k-$1M, y companies with revenue $1M-$10M, z companies in bucket $10M-$100M. I need those numbers for various…
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Seeking geographical database that, given coordinate boundaries, returns all the mountain peaks within the boundary, their coordinates, and elevation
I'm looking for a web service that, given a set of coordinate boundaries, in the form of a rectangle or square, returns all the mountain peaks within the boundary, along with the coordinates and the elevation of the peak.
Geonames offers such a…
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Does there exist a set of data that measures internet traffic that is specific to image downloading and uploading?
I am currently writing a report, I would like to make a claim which I am struggling to back up:
The volume of image data transferred digitally has increased as the
internet has become more popular and fast download speeds has become
more easily…
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Electric utility boundary lines in US
I'm looking for shapefiles or other spatial definitions for electric utility service areas in the United States. Does this exist in a single place anywhere?
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How to get a list of all strengths & forms for a drug from RxNorm?
RxNorm is a database of drugs put out by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. I've pulled the RxNorm data into a Postgres database using some of the supplied MySQL scripts and some code that I wrote myself.
I am able to find the list of all…
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