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German municipality-level data (Gemeinde) on demographics
I'm trying to find comprehensive Gemeinde-level data for small (<10'000 inh.) municipalities in all of Germany.
The (joint-)distribution or at least some summary shares of the following characteristics is most important for…
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What makes Open Data tools specific to Open Data?
What makes some data visualization tools like CKAN, Socrata, OpenDataSoft, and Junar specific to Open Data? Is there anything special about Open Data formats that make it easier to work with in one tool over another? Has anyone done any comparisons…
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Where could one find financial big data
As part of my thesis on Visual Analytics I need to find a financial dataset to work on. The purpose of the thesis is to analyze a big-data-grade dataset and then visualize it in different ways. However so far I haven't a reliable source of financial…
George Lydakis
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OpenFDA: Why is the database updated infrequently, given that recall notices are pretty time sensitive . . . and when is it likely to get improved?
For instance, last update to their database was on 01. of May. But on other pages I could find two reports that were published in May. So the newest report from their api that I could get is from April. They issue reports weekly. So in this case the…
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Source of CIA World Factbook estimates
Does anyone know if the CIA World Factbook (WF) country estimates are the CIA's own or whether they come from the World Bank (WB) or other sources?
As of today (2015-05-20), CIA WF's page on, for instance, Ethiopia, has economic estimates for 2014,…
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Supermarket Produce Data Set
I'm looking for a dataset that describes various types of fruits. The Supermarket Produce Data Set described here seems like a good choice:
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~siome/papers/rocha-sib08.pdf
However, I tried using the link provided in the paper…
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Why is CSV "better" than Excel in 5 star open data schema?
I am reading about the 5-star schema for Open data. I noticed that the data ranked with three stars are CSV files while data ranked as two stars are like Excel documents. I wonder why is that?
Is excel less quality than CSV?
Is it because for excel…
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Art Market data
I'm looking for art market related data for research purposes - especially sales in auction houses. I know there are sites like artprice or its free equivalents, but what I'm searching for is something like a structured database, CSV files or linked…
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Recent Macroeconomics dataset of all countries in the World
I need a dataset that contains recent macroeconomics attributes for countries. I have tried to make my own by joining Wikipedia tables on GDP, GDP per capita, population, poverty, imports, exports, life expectancy, illiteracy rate, external debt,…
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Water level historical data for California
I am looking for data attesting for the variation of fresh water availability in California over the years (ideally 20+ years). For instance river levels, river throughput, wells levels.
If data is not available for California, similar USA data is…
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How can I track updates on the release of new open data sources across the world?
Is there any blog and / or link where I can get regular updates on the release of latest open data sources across world?
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Data about spoon usage when eating spaghetti, by area
Some people usually use a spoon when eating spaghetti, and some do not.
The proportion seems to be dependent on the country/region.
Has any data been published on the topic?
Preferably raw poll result files, but aggregated data as CSV is OK…
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USAID Dataset Downloads Published List
My understanding is that you are collecting data on the frequency of downloads of every dataset uploaded to the DDL (Development Data Library). Have you uploaded that dataset of downloads?
I am interested in knowing the number of downloads of every…
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Crime rate data for American cities
I'm writing a paper and I'm interested in monthly crime rates in American cities.
The FBI database contains only yearly crime rates and it stops at 2012 (http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/), and each individual police station varies in their degree of…
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Freshness of Unemployment Data
Since unemployment data is based off of surveys, I assume the announced data reflects some period in the past.
I cannot find information on the "currency metric" of unemployment data.
Does anyone have any ideas?
In case I'm falling for the "XY…
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