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free REST API for daily end-of-day S&P 500 index

I am looking for a free API to retrieve the daily end-of-day S&P 500 index for the past year. There are plenty of APIs which provide the individual stocks, but the indices are not for free. There are also many historic S&P 500 index datasets, but…
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Cynthia Wessell's Dictionary of Affect

Is Cynthia Wessell's dictionary of affect available as an open dataset? Looks like a it's closed-source executable (and $175) on the official website.
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What are good examples of open data dashboards?

What are good examples of open data dashboards? This can either be: A dashboard that uses open data, for example the London City Dashboard (but better...) A collection of metrics about the open data ecosystem. For example, the various country…
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Data of covid-19 test per day, per country

Similarly to a recent question on lockdowns, wonder if there is a machine-readable dataset of covid-19 testing per country/state/region. Testing rate largely affects the official number of infected, and thus of apparent fatality (Case Fatality…
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Do you know a technique for text mining judicial decisions?

I'm trying to find a method to mine sepecific informations in judicial decisions (judge's name, court, area of law and neutral citation number[canadian way to cite decisions uniformly across the country]). I'm looking at NLP(nltk module for Python)…
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Data sets from motion capture?

Wondering if there are any datasets of motion capture data from people or animals running, walking, manipulating objects etc. Could be quite useful for robotic training, etc!
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Where can I find a dataset that lists all the businesses and their addresses operating in a given city?

At one point I had an idea for a localized web site specifically focusing on a single city. I spoke to several people within that city's government, and it was clear that there was no one single place that kept easily accessible and update-to-date…
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Vehicle Miles Traveled in New Jersey before 1981

I am looking for public road mileage or total vehicle miles traveled in the state of New Jersey for any of the years before 1981. Any help would be much appreciated. VMT for 1981 and beyond are here. I've tried contacting the number listed on this…
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Dataset with biggest events in the world/region, reporting number of attendees, geolocation and date

I want to build a dynamic representation of the most popular events in a region over a certain period of time. I was thinking Europe, but if there is no dataset available I could do it for the US. Regarding the time I would like to have at least 2-3…
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Where to get the USA bill of lading datasets

I need the US import bill of lading datasets. I know that it's free but I only find data vendors, like import genius. Where can I download or buy the RAW datasets without vendors? Directly from the US CBP?
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Torrent for Wikidata dump

I'm looking for Wikipedia (enwiki-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2) and a Wikidata (latest-all.json.bz2 ) dumps. The files are quite large (the latter has ~47GB) and my internet connection tends to stop while downloading. I'm looking for…
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Estimate of total public expenditure from governments around world?

I found in Twitter a great question related to Open Data SE. Maybe someone knows anything more. Does anyone know of an estimate of total public expenditure from governments around world?
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Seeking comprehensive open source for building shapefiles in USA

I am currently looking for a comprehensive source for Building Shapefiles in the USA, particularly New Jersey. I have come across a few websites e.g. geofabrik (http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/new-jersey.html), http://osm2shp.ru/ ,…
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Historical data of what country a city belongs to over a historical period?

We run a sports history site and occasionally we run into issues where a person was born in Prague, but in 1887, and we wish to display the correct country at the time of their birth rather than at the current day. We have used geonames extensively,…
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World dataset of hospitals

I am looking for a (global) dataset of hospitals: mainly locations, but if possible also names, sizes, number of beds. As far as I can tell, this does not exist yet, but perhaps there are good starting points!
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