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22 Excellent Free & Open Data Sources for Doing #DataScience

Lillian Pierson, P.E.

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Check out these abundant sources of free and open data.

R3Data.org

Linked Data

Data.gov

Corporate Critic

Federal Reserve Economic Data

Google Ngram

Quora Large Dataset Listing

Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

US Census Data

WWF

World Values Survey

DataHub

Knoema

NASA’s Data Portal

Quandl

National Renewable Energy Lab Data

Exversion

Social Network Analysis Interactive Dataset Library

Shop ethical

Reddit Datasets Feed

Figure Eight (fka; CrowdFlower)

KDnuggets Listing

Also, check out this AMAZING list on Github.

You can get information on more great free offerings for doing data science in my book, Data Science for Dummies.

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