Open Data Stack Exchange
Open Data Stack Exchange

Most Popular

more tags
1500 questions
7
votes
2 answers

Open Data formats used

I would like to know if there is any kind of official study with the OD formats used to publish datasets worldwide with respective percentage.
pjmorce
  • 71
  • 1
7
votes
4 answers

R packages with open data in them

I love and play a lot with the Baseball data package for R (Lahman), and I was wonder if there is anything like it but for more oriented to social sciences. Either surveys or admin data (PSID, HRS, ARF, NLSY, ACS) would be great. I would appreciate…
Fernando Hoces De La Guardia
  • 421
  • 2
  • 5
7
votes
1 answer

Where can I find open data on healthcare quality indicators?

I've been working with HEDIS measures for quality measurement in healthcare in the US, but most of what I have seen is proprietary. I'm interested in reproducible research hence my need for open data. Any suggestions?
Fernando Hoces De La Guardia
  • 421
  • 2
  • 5
7
votes
3 answers

Where can I find a taxonomy of open data sites?

I was looking for a Stack Exchange site to ask this and Open Data seems to be the one. I am to write a short note on how to find information on the internet and for that I would love to read a taxonomy of internet sites, or, to talk this site's…
Gergely
  • 233
  • 1
  • 5
7
votes
1 answer

Any dataset containing the price/charge that patients "actually" pay for their health care service?

I have looked through several data sources--OSHPD, HCUP, Medicare--looking for any data (restricted or public use) on what uninsured patients "actually" pay (as opposed to what they were initially charged) for their health care services. So far, all…
Seb
  • 225
  • 2
  • 5
7
votes
2 answers

French equivalent of the brown corpus

The brown corpus is a collection of text where each element is already gramatically tagged. It contains about one million words and is often used to train statistical PoS taggers. For the french language, I'm aware of two equivalents : the french…
merours
  • 413
  • 4
  • 11
7
votes
1 answer

Web crawling to create a business

If I were to web crawl supermarkets' websites and retrieve info and create a comparison tool for sale would that be illegal?
user3236
  • 71
  • 1
7
votes
1 answer

Colors of political parties

I am working on a project which visualizes html tables automatically. If the table includes parties, it would be great to have the color for this party. Does anyone know some page,api or something else to get these colors? For…
Wikunia
  • 335
  • 2
  • 9
7
votes
2 answers

Fortune 500 CEOs/executive boards

I'm looking for a file that contains either all the CEOs or preferably the executive boards. Any file format is okay. I just can't find anything or any file that has this data, nor do any of the APIs I've looked through offer this.
Snoop Dogg
  • 73
  • 5
7
votes
2 answers

What would be the cleanest / easiest method of collecting rental property data?

What would be the easiest method of collecting data about rental properties. I'm looking for per-unit information including: Monthly Rent Are utilities included? Monthly Electric bill Heating fuel Heating cost per month Taxes per month Number of…
Travis Weston
  • 171
  • 2
7
votes
1 answer

Pokerstars hands database

Is there some open data of pokerstars.com hands history? I'm searching for data that can help me improve my skills about players behavior and strategies. It can be free or paid sources.
Filipe Ferminiano
  • 377
  • 1
  • 3
  • 7
7
votes
1 answer

Free data of connections between role and skill

I'm looking for a FREE dataset of connections beetwen programming(business) skills (e.g. html, python, ios, data structure, unix, api, business development, teamwork) and programming(business) titles (e.g. Business Analyst, Software Architect, Data…
Mher
  • 211
  • 1
  • 2
7
votes
2 answers

What are open data sources about current sea state?

I wonder where (links/APIs) can be obtained data that is related to current (alike realtime - no past) sea state data (worldwide, but regional is good two, salt\waves length\hight etc)? I am only interested in dynamically changing data as close to…
DuckQueen
  • 357
  • 1
  • 7
7
votes
2 answers

Dataset with a specific demographic distribution due to user interface

Does anyone else really dislike those country or birth-year drop-down list on websites? I've heard anecdotally from database admins that way too many people were born in 1900 and come from Afghanistan. Does anyone know a public dataset that shows…
philshem
  • 17,647
  • 7
  • 68
  • 170
7
votes
1 answer

How do United States federal agencies release data?

I'm interested in the process of how an agency, like the EPA, GSA, or Department of State, finds a dataset they wish to release, selects it, and how they go about releasing it to the public. How do the internal processes work?
Clay Johnson
  • 927
  • 7
  • 8
1 2 3
…
99 100