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What is a good Python CKAN Tutorial?
Where can I find some resources to help me learn how to write Python to CKAN (in this instance data.gov.uk) repositories?
I've had some signs of life from bits of code that I've found, but would certainly benefit from some good tutorials.
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Weather radar data for Europe, especially Latvia
I would like to ask if there is a homepage where I can get weather radar data for Europe territory for free. I have looked in the internet, but can't find them. I will be very glad if someone can help me. (It would be ideal to get the rainfall or…
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Download list of the name of every country in Western languages
I am looking for a list of all (say 220) countries in all Western languages. At the very least, all 24 official EU languages. so that's a 220x24 or so table. So it should look something like:
EN BG CS …
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Human Mortality database around the world
I am looking for a database about death rates and population around the world.
Idealy, I want:
Per country
Per year
Including birth rates
Divided by gender
Including age of death
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Dataset of crosswords
I'm looking for a dataset containing crossword grids along with their clues and their solution, preferably in English or French. If possible crossword grids would be rated on some difficulty scale and dated.
Franck Dernoncourt
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Collection of messy data
I'm looking for messy data files for practice/testing/training in data cleaning. Ideally, someone knows of a collection like there are for Machine Learning and other domains. But individual bad data sets would be useful, too. By "bad" I meaning…
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A database of drugs and their targets
Do you know if there is any free for commercial and non-commercial project database with drugs information and their targets?
For example:
Drug name: Paracetamol
Chemical Formula: C8H9NO2
Target: Antipyretics
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Can I aggregate and reformat publicly available data for teaching?
I work and teach in a field where public data is scarce (anatomical MRI processing). I planned to organize a few practical works for students this semester. I had a pretty hard time gathering publicly available data from different software…
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Climate data from stations in Canada
Does anyone know of data available via an API for climate stations in Canada. NOAA has a nice API interface for US stations (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2), and does have data for non-US stations, but not things that I want. I need…
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Where can I find data on university expenditures?
I'd like to examine claims frequently made in popular articles about reasons for the rising cost of education, e.g. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/cost-of-higher-education/index.html. I have not yet successfully found any…
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Is it legal to make an open face recognition database of public people like celebrities?
This question came to my mind after sorting out some pictures and also having my picasa program at the same time open.
So is it legal to make a face recognition database of public pictures from people like e.g. celebrities, politicians or any other…
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Drink Recipe Database
I'm looking for a free/open Drink (Cocktail) Recipe database. I found this one: http://www.odditysoftware.com/page-datasales7.htm which looks like exactly what I want, but this project doesn't have the budget to buy a database like this. Is there…
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What is the appropriate way to timestamp/determine recency of given data set?
Certain U.S. federal grant applications require the use of "recent" data, e.g.
data used to support the application should come from recent (i.e.
within the past 5 years) published source
Is there a standard by which one should determine the…
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Where can I find dataset around child labor in cocoa production?
I see so munch information around cocoa production, and there are so many NGO and government initiative around Child labor in cocoa production and chocolate making. Is there any credible source where I can find that data by nation?
Edit - This…
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Obtaining longitude/latitude boundaries for Google Maps regions
Some locations on Google Maps are not strictly a single address and are instead denoted by a shaded area. (For example, any state or provincial park, or of specific interest to me, the Acadia University campus). Is there any way to obtain a set of…
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