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Congressional Record in electronic form
Is there a way to get an electronic copy of the Congressional Record, or otherwise get information about all the speakers in Congress, what they said, when they said, the votes on all motions bills, the text of all bills and related information?
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Getting legal information
Is there a way to find out how many cases have been filed under a particular act or law? Bonus if it is possible to filter by location, parties, etc.
I am primarily interested in this for the US (or any states where this is possible) but it would be…
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Do census tract geographic shapefile data update annually?
I am looking at census tract TIGER/Line shapefiles from data.gov (https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php), and I see that they
provide options for census tracts for different years.
I noticed that the file size between the census…
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What type of software is used by the Open Data community?
I am a newcomer to the world of Open Data and I would like to know what type of tools/software one could be confronted with. Not for a specific task, but mostly in general. For example:
Which tools are often used regardless of the task ?
Which…
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PhD for open data in Europe
I am looking for a PhD in Europe related with open data. Do you know any university that works with this sector?
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What are the Units of Measure for the ZAREALAND & MAREALAND fields in US Census Data?
What are the Units of Measure for the ZAREALAND & MAREALAND fields in the 2010 ZCTA to Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas Relationship File published by the United States Census Bureau?
Image from the Explanation of the 2010 ZCTA to…
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I'm looking for military discharge rates, the more focused the better
I'm looking for rates of military discharges by type - honorable, dishonorable, Other Than Honorable, Bad Behavior, Officer, ETC. It would be really, really awesome if I could find this information by veteran's living in state or city, specifically…
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Invasive Plant Species Data
Where can I find invasive plant species data? I'm looking for GIS point data with the locations of the invasive plant species specifically. Not limited to one particular area or invasive plant species, just looking for a hub or good website to…
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Is there anywhere to get US gps pipeline route data?
I am looking for an open database or spreadsheet containing the gps coordinates of pipelines the possibly plot on Google Earth?
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How to convert risk adjustment scores into dollar amounts from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey?
I want to take the 2002-2009 Risk Adjustment Scores of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and convert them to dollar amounts.
The documentation has a table for conversion, but I do not know which to use since there are multiple scores in the…
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Database of bicycle sharing systems
I am looking for a database of bicycle sharing systems. It does not need to be real-time (even though that would be wonderful).
Each entry should ideally have the following:
Name of the system (ex: Vélib')
Official URL (ex:…
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Aircraft parts database
Is there an open dataset of aircraft parts?
Each part has a unique number. Several services provide search across resellers. These searches return little details on the part itself, only reseller contacts.
FAA maintains several datasets, one of…
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UN/LOCODE Copyright Status
Presumably the UN intended UN/LOCODE to be used, but there doesn't seem to be any information regarding its copyright or licensing. Does anyone know under what license it's distributed?
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Frequency Analysis Character Distribution Data
Is there a location I can download character distributions for frequency analysis used in decryption attempt validation? I am specifically interested in ASCII value [32, 126] frequency distribution for plain English language text. This would imply…
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Free database of vehicle data and VIN
I've been looking for a free database of vehicle manufacturer's specifications, data, and VIN for a long time with no luck, does anyone have any ideas?
Please identify any database of free or non-free, you know. Free database are more…
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