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Looking for Open Data Source to Correlate Address to Latitude/Longitude (geocoding)

Are there any open data sources that can help correlate a given address to a latitude/longitude coordinate? aka geocoding
Dan Ciborowski - MSFT
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Should we open our data?

Our company runs a business similar to Yelp but limited to a regional area. Currently we are thinking of licencing our Point of Interest database under a free licence. Of course that would mean that our competitors can take all our POI data and put…
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What's an easy-to-use tool to manage datasets?

I am quite new to open data. I see a lot of people looking for machine-readable data, but to start, I am wondering which tool I can use to start playing with some dataset. I am particularly looking for a tool that would provide basic text results (I…
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Data of vehicle traffic

Does anyone know/have good dataset or data feed of vehicle traffic on freeways/highways or urban area? I'm searching for data from vehicle counters that have small interval of measurement, like 1 or 5 minutes. Data should include vehicle count,…
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List of data sources at the state, county and zip / zcta level

I am trying to compile a list data sources - excluding the US Census - that cover the continental US at the state, county and ZIP/ZCTA level. Any help would be appreciated. Additional details: I have created an R package that facilitates creating…
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The "right to mine" and scraping the web in EU

Sorry for the somewhat general question, to which the answers necessary depend on the country of operation and necessarily are also subject to become obsolete at some point. But I think it to be quite relevant to the open data initiative, and…
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How many software developers are there in the world, per country?

This question has been asked (and closed) in various forms across this network, ie: Stack Overflow: How many software developers are there in the world? Programmers: Where can I find statistics on worldwide developers and software companies? It…
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How to publish real-time open data

I'd want to publish some "real-time" data, i.e. my FV panel energy production, on a server. Which is the best way of cataloguing the data and make it available? Energy is just an example, say that I add weather info or anything else. I looked into…
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Mapping all Wikipedia URLs to Wikidata entity ids

Is there a Wikidata dump that maps all Wikipedia URLs to their corresponding Wikidata entity ids, e.g. the Wikipedia URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks to the Wikidata entity id Q2263?
Alok Shankar
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Free English Dictionary

Looking for a free monolingual english dictionary like oxford or longman dictionary, but which I can freely use, without violating any intellectual property. I want to use it in my iOS app. I need definition /meaning of english words expressed with…
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Is there a list, database or API that contains the URLs for United States city and town websites?

I'm looking for a database of URLs for every official city and town website. Ideally this list would be up to date and maintained. Freebase has some of the results and we have every city and town in Vermont from our own internal collection efforts…
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Are there free APIs for searching news articles that I can use to collect trend data in news coverage?

I am working on a data-visualization web application that looks at trends in American news media coverage over time. It takes a keyword (or keywords), a date range, and a time increment as parameters and generates a line graph and data set of how…
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Are there datasets prepared for machine learning?

These datasets would be structured and presented in a way that is accessible for students or scholars interested in machine learning. Students could use them to learn how to create applications that utilize machine learning, and scholars could use…
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Is there a list of all municipal government forms in a machine readable format?

I've found a list of government forms at the US federal level by looking at the OIRA PRA Information Collections XML file. Is there a list of similar forms at the state/local level for the US?
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Total screen time and first on-screen appearance by actors in films

I'm looking for a data set that contains total screen time and first on-screen appearance (mm:ss) by actors and actresses in Hollywood films. I'm most interested in these data points for actors and actresses in Oscar-nominated roles, but I'd be able…
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