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Retrieve affiliations from research paper
I am trying to download the data of the research papers published by people in my university. What I would like to do is then to plot the geographical distribution of the authors, and see how it evolves as a function of time.
Do you have any…
user3961
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Is there any open data FDA, or other, regarding U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards?
In purchasing drugs and supplements, I've noticed that certain products are advertised as Pharmaceutical Grade. Wanting to know what qualifies a substance as pharmaceutical grade I did some googling and found the USP, which apparently sets drug…
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Is there a publicly available database of all Apple products?
I'm looking for a database similar to everymac or mactracker.
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Have genetic algorithms been applied to Open Data?
I have become very interested in genetic algorithms or GAs (which are not necessarily related in any way to genetics or genomics; see link). This algorithmic method of searching is very well-suited to large datasets. There are Open Source projects…
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How to get access to half-open subscription-only data?
The IMF and other organizations have public data by subscription. Some university libraries have CDs from these vendors or online subscription.
Are there any online libraries that provide similar temporary access to these datasets?
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Infectiousness vs. deadliness for various diseases
I'm looking for a dataset of infectiousness vs. deadliness for various diseases and viruses.
I was inspired by this visualization from The Guardian. I want to make some variations on this, but can't find the necessary data collected together.
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Mapping between Wikivoyage article names and their Wikidata identifier
When I want to know the Wikidata identifier of a Wikivoyage article like Barcelona, I usually run this API call:
wget --quiet -O - "http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=enwikivoyage&titles=Barcelona&format=xml&props=" | sed…
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Can I simply copy a CC-BY-SA 3.0 work as CC-BY-SA 4.0?
It is my understanding that since BY-SA 2.0 [1], all CC-BY-SA licenses have included some automatic "or later" clause, which means you can adapt the work and release the result under a later license.
It was recently pointed out to me that copying a…
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Open resources about cosmetics and beauty/body products
We're currently creating an open database of cosmetics and beauty/body products, just like we did for OpenFoodFacts, and I was wondering whether you knew of resources that might be helpful, and liberally licensed.
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Is there a list of hot-spots and free wifis in Germany?
Is there a list or database or API for finding hot-spots and public available wifis for Germany?
Of course this data is volatile, so it should be often actualized.
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Creating audio fingerprint database
My company has created unique audio fingerprinting system that we use to detect music and advertisements on radio and TV (among other uses). So far, we are used to dodging all requests for database creation since we are not sure where we are…
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How to get my data accepted in the Linked Open Data Cloud Diagram?
The Linked Open Data Cloud Diagram is a cool diagram showing about 570 datasets:
What are the steps to get my dataset into the next version of this diagram?
And more importantly, what are the technical/legal requirements for my dataset?
Also, what…
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Hackathons and opendata
My organisation is hoping to run a hackathon event in a few months time. We're a public organisation and we have lots of data and ideas how this might run but we need someone to direct and basically run the event. How much do people usually charge…
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Sports results datasets
Where can I find statistics for sport competitions, like Olympics and international championships?
I'm looking for actual results, like timing in 100m races or rates given to figure skaters.
Sources I found contain limited information…
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Open database of enterprise software prices
Software being a non-physical product, it is sometimes hard to guess prices. And while consumer-grade software has price listed, for most enterprise software (for instance Documentum or FileNet) you have to contact the editor or a reseller to get a…
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