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Machine Learning Data Sets searchable by statistical properties

There are a number of collections of open example data sets for machine learning, e.g., the one of the UC Irvine. However, they are usually organized by source or topic. Does anyone know of a list or search engine for this kind of data set, which is…
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Shape files for Colleges/Universities?

I was wondering if anyone has ever found shape files for all colleges/universities (both 2 and 4 years) in the United States. The closest thing I've found so far is the 2015 TIGER U.S. Census AREALM shape file which includes the vast majority of…
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Open datasets for educational use

I'm interested in compiling open datasets for educational use. For example, this page from the State University of New York Geneseo includes open datasets by topic. I'm especially interesting in datasets that may be appropriate for K-12 use, so I…
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British Newspaper Archive

Anyone know if there is a way to obtain the OCR txt files from the British Newspaper Archive via some bulk download API? Some more details: This is the British Newspaper Archive: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ It's provided in partnership…
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Historical weather forecast API

For a college project I need historical weather forecasts for Europe up to 14 days for 2015 and 2016. The last two days I was desperately searching for APIs with such data, but usually there is just observed data for historical dates. I know this…
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Database of cities with coordinates and timezone

I'm looking for a database containing city name, location coordinates, and timezone. I thought this would be simple to find, but it has proven difficult. (I don't see this question covered elsewhere on the site. Perhaps because it's just too basic.…
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Census County Commuter Flow Data?

I've been banging my head on this, and I'm just not having a lot of luck. I've been using the Census' American Fact Finder to try and find it, but I'm not seeing it. What I need is to be able to look at a county (say Cole County, MO) and see where…
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Open API for currency conversion / exchange rates to EUR/USD/GBP (daily settlements)

I'm looking for free open APIs (XML or REST(JSON)*) that I can access from my program code to get the (daily) exchange rate for foreign currencies to the Euro, Dollar or British Pound (especially from non-Euro European countries and the US). No…
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Overfishing dataset

We are joining a datathon tomorrow with the goal to get insight in the whole ocean overfishing situation and we are looking for data to prepare a little bit. Global Fishing Watch seems interesting however we cannot find the data online. Does anyone…
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Timeseries from the CIA World Factbook

We're looking for some datasets (preferably time-series) on the percentage of people in different countries who adhere to different religions (like here), speak different languages (like here) or belong to different ethnic groups (like here - oops I…
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Is there an open database with characteristics of tree species?

I am looking for a downloadable/queryable database which lists tree species with their characteristics (e.g. average height, preferred temperature, etc.), I am specifically interested in flowering times. There are some websites where one can look up…
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How to collect hand-writing data

I'm working on machine learning project that requires I collect hand-writing data of alphabets from an uncommon language (I'm 100% there is no available data out there). My question is how should I collect this data? The approach I'm currently…
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Historical flight path data

Im looking for open data on historical US flight paths. I know the FAA has a real-time data stream that gives the flight, latitude, longitude, and altitude of planes. I want this data for the past 10 years. Anyone know if this is available?
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API that matches food names to categories

I am using an API that provides a load of nutritional information for food, for example calories, protein, etc. However what it does not provide is any sort of categorization of that food. Can anyone recommend a database or API, free or paid, that…
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ASCII Character Frequency Analysis

I've been looking for a table of the frequencies of all 128 ASCII characters, not just letters. The best table I've been able to find is this one, but that one only includes printable ASCII characters, and is still missing some very important ones…
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