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U.S. Census CBP Employment by year at aggregate U.S. level

I'm analysing employment by U.S. CBSA in the period 2001-2014, based on U.S. Census CBP data. I'd like to obtain aggregate employment in the U.S. (50 states+DC) based on CBPs. Since CBSA data is partial, I can't get country-level aggregates by just…
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Where Can I Find Library Utilization Data?

I am interested in data on the utilization of US libraries. Ideally I would like listings of libraries with locations, a complete listing of their available catalog of books, and a history of which books were checked out when. It's fine if the check…
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Versions of CKAN datasets and its resources

I am working on an analysis based on open data from a CKAN data store. For this analysis to be reproducible it obviously needs the exact same input dataset. I would hence like to make sure that a resource that is downloaded in a future execution of…
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Shaded KML file for US Zip Codes? Doesn't have to be perfect

I was looking for a simple KML file anyone knew of that I could just easily import and overlay onto Google Earth. I know Google Earth already seems to show postal code regions under government data, but they arn't shaded and I don't know how to…
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Where can I find data on MARTA?

Atlanta, GA has a Metro Area Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) which has information on trains, passengers, etc. Where can I find this data?
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Open Land Cover Data for Australia

I'm interested in both low (rough) and high (fine) resolution, open (free) and classified land cover raster data for Australia. Ideally geodata sources; the less thematic classification is better; forest entity is the most important for my…
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Infectious disease outbreakes in Russia by region

Are there sources where I can find information about infectious disease (say, plague, hepatitis, polio) outbreakes in modern Russia? Typically, a disease outbreak is followed by a warning issued by public health regulators: are those kind of data…
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US Radiation measurements

Is there a service that provides gamma energy data from RadNet in machine readable format such as JSON or CSV? The current RadNet UI is restricted to html and charts. Excel report itself is limited to 400 samples. Likewise, EPA sources on data.gov…
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Where are some examples of interesting analyses of the College Scorecard data?

I've been searching online for plots and analyses of the College Scorecard data, because I'm interested in analyzing the data myself. I don't want to reproduce what others have already done. I've played around with the tools that the College…
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Measures of racism in US

I'm doing a research project that tries to provide insight into the underlying causes behind racism. More specifically, the project examines out-group bias based on race or ethnicity in US. I'd be interested in knowing what data there might exist…
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Units of measurement conversion database

Tools to convert units of measurement and conversion data is abundant, but what databases/datasets exist which aim to consolidate unit conversion data? For example: 1 pound equals 0.45359237 kilogram per "Refinement Of Values For The Yard And The…
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IMDB dataset on Kaggle and copyright explanation

I was surfing on kaggle and I found this dataset https://www.kaggle.com/deepmatrix/imdb-5000-movie-dataset it contains data from 5000 IMDB movies. I was surprised since i thought that this would be copyright infringement, could someone explain me or…
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Internal company data: policy and documentation

Does anyone know of any examples of companies that have published their internal documentation and policies, or a handbook. Things such as: Workflow Communication guidelines Corporate identity guidelines Tools
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Open Data Standard for Stack Exchange?

In light of the fact that this site is about open data, is Stack Exchange based upon any open data standard(s)? I converted the group welcome statement to open, standard, machine-readable StratML format at…
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Shapefile for traditional culture areas of the Americas

I am searching for a shapefile showing the traditional indigenous culture areas of the Americas. Here's an example of pretty much exactly what I want (without the plotted tribal names) http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-153006 Does anyone…