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How can I download the Product Open Data database?
I am wanting to find a worldwide open nutritional database.
I know there have been questions about this before and the answers all refer to USDA's Agricultural Research Service and OKFN's Open Product Data sites.
The USDA one is very much restricted…
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Simulated dataset agent based gps
I am about to do a project that involves "trajectory" prediction of human gps tracks. Preferably I need data of "agents" over months. In need some sort of "routine patterns" in it (e.g. work <-> home).
I was wondering if there are any public…
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Open database of filename extensions
Filename extensions like ".doc" or ".licx" are usually associated with a type of file, and are sometimes strongly associated with one or several pieces of software.
Is there an open database of these?
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How would I find on iMDb, all male actors with movies debuts between ages 20 and 30?
It would be like asking each male actor personally: Which movies were you in when you were between the age of 20 and 30? To be clear, that would be 30 years and 364 days old.
For example, for today, this would find me actors like: Miles Teller…
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Weather Web Service by Postal Code?
I'm looking for either a website, a web service, an RSS feed, etc. that would allow me to look up current and historic weather info for a particular zipcode or region in the U.S., specifically:
Barometric…
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Datasets in which people make probability estimates
It doesn't matter whether the estimates were made in terms of percentages or proportions
It also doesn't matter whether the estimates resolved by a binary truth (e.g. "What's the probability David Cameron will still be UK Prime Minister on Jun 1…
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uk postcode outcode border data
I am aware of this:
First character boundaries
However, this only gives you the borders for, for example, 'L' rather than:
L1, L10, L11, L12 etc.
Can I obtain these fine-grained border data from somewhere free?
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Open, big time-series dataset (ideally web traffic)
I'm working on a project for automatically identifying and sorting web analytics incidents.
As part of testing of the software, I'm looking for time-series dataset (ideally >100K rows) with daily data broken down by some well-defined dimensions…
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Is there (or should there be) a standard way to categorize procurement data at the municipal level?
One of the data sets that I see being released by cities is information about what services cities are procuring. For example, the City of Chicago lists their contract award data like this:…
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Dataset of entry/exit times of vehicles in/out of a parking lot
I am doing a study of traffic control and want to find a dataset of entries and exits of a garage or parking lot.
Then I can calculate the staying time of any car in garage or parking lot.
Example:
07:48 Vehicle 4569823 enters
07:54 Vehicle 0269564…
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Trying to find definitions for "Location" in Farmers Market datasets
I am working on a project using some datasets for Farmers Markets and I am trying to determine which locations in the data are on public land and which are on private land. Is there a definition of the terms I'm working with for…
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How do I find out if a given movie is available in Germany?
Is it possible to check if a given movie, identified by its title or IMDb id, was either
a) screened in German film theaters,
b) shown on German TV, or
c) distributed as DVD in Germany?
So far I am only aware of http://www.ffa.de/ which shows only…
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Police Misconduct dataset?
Anyone know where I can find a good dataset on police misconducts? I'd like something similar to what RAND current has out on its policemisconduct.org site, but it looks like its pretty much a Twitter bot scraper. IE I'm pretty sure the same event…
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Data about biases in city service requests
Many cities have opened up data on various forms of service requests, but it's difficult to interpret these data. If we see that part of a city has more calls for potholes, does that mean that there are more potholes or more people who will make…
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Where can I find accurate US county boundaries?
I'm looking for accurate US county boundaries in shapefile (most likely), feature class, or a geodatabase. Specifically, I'm looking for Midwestern US states: Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
Any ideas?
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