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Concert Events Data

I am looking for an historic dataset of concert events. I have tried the last.fm api but the query endpoint I need appears to be broken:…
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Missing schools on college scorecard

Does anybody know why are some schools not showing up on the College Scorecard (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov) recently released by the Obama administration? For example, why isn't Gateway Community & Technical College in Kentucky showing up?
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Banknotes database

Are there a free banknotes database. By saying banknotes database I mean database of all world currencies banknotes values. For example for the US Dollar values are $100, $50, $20, $10, $5, $1, 50c, ...
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How can a data governance framework be adapted for Open Data?

I'm interested in seeing if anyone has experience to offer in extending an organization's existing data governance model to include open data release practices. For example, how have organizations utilized data governance roles (data owner, data…
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What gives people the right to license factual data?

Data sets, databases, or APIs we can find these days are either licensed openly or commercially. I'm a bit confused as to how the publishers / owners / compilers are rightfully licensing these factual data by their own terms? I mean, first of all,…
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What are some sources for interesting data sets to play with?

I'm pretty new to data science and want to get my hands dirty. What are some good publicly available data sets to play with?
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Linked Open Data Statistics

Where i can find a good document about Statistics of Linked open data cloud (organizations, number of triples and number of links) year by year? In the official web site (lod cloud) there's only Statistics of 2011 and 2014. Where is the information…
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Historical Oil Price Forecasts - MENA/West Africa Region

I am looking for historical crude oil price forecasts, ideally from 1970's - present. I want to look at impacts of oil price expectations rather than real oil prices in the MENA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA) and West Africa Region with…
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Finding tables in messy structured Excel / csv file to import them in DB

we have a lot of messy structured excel files containing tables somewhere on a sheet and we want to import these tables into a database to do some analytic on it. There problem is that we don't have the time to run through the files and clean them…
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Cleaning up addresses in a large data set

I have a dataset of about half a million unique addresses. An address consists of a StreetAddress1, StreetAddress2, City, State and Zip code (all addresses are in the United States). One of my main problems dealing with this dataset coherently is…
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Coordinates of villages in The Gambia/Senegal

I am looking for sources of geo-referenced data on villages and cities (or all other things there are) in The Gambia (and Senegal if available). One issue with geocoding in rural West Africa is the varying spelling of village names. I own a…
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Historical dataset of prices of valuable metals

I am looking for a dataset that includes the historical price of gold, silver, platinum, copper and other valuable metals. To be precise I am looking for a dataset that consists of more that 10 variables. It is important to me that data are…
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Any databases with this data?

Has anybody seen a medical data set with: clinical data (patient's age, gender, prior history, and stuff like that) biomarkers (blood pressure, blood oxygenation, etc.) genetic data (preferably gene expression or miRNA data) imaging data…
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Where can I find data on sales of celery varieties in Europe?

In the Wikipedia entry on Celery, the Celeriac wasn't even mentioned, while it is the "de facto celery" of the Europe. If you walk up to a vegetable stand and ask for celery, you're getting a celery root. If the recipe says "add celery" it means…
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What should I do with a database of public library greeter questions?

I work at a county public library, and recently I found out that our greeters have been writing down the questions patrons ask them. I gave them a form to make the data more coherent and I've been keeping it in an Access database. There are only…
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