Data Bazaar
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Data Source |
Name |
Description |
Usage |
Exercises |
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Kiva |
Non-profit organization providing microfinance loans worldwide |
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n/a |
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Divvy |
City of Chicago’s official bike share system data |
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n/a |
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EPA Fuel Economy Data |
Fuel economy information for 1984-current model year vehicles |
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n/a |
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Euro Foreign Exchange Rates |
Current and historical references rates provided by the European Central Bank |
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n/a |
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FAA Airport Status |
Serves airport status and delay information from the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) as displayed on http://fly.faa.gov/ |
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n/a |
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USGS Earthquake Live Feed |
Event data for live earthquakes |
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n/a |
More to explore…
Data Source |
Notes |
CORGIS Datasets |
Items listed under the “Raw Datasets” should work with Sinbad |
Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
Lots of interesting stuff (download CSV files to use them) |
NYC Open Data |
Once you have selected a data set to view information about, click the “Download” button at the top right of the page; then right-click and copy the link to the CSV data. Use that URL to connect your DataSource object. |
SFC Open Data |
Similar to NYC Open Data |
200,000+ Jeopardy! Questions |
Available in JSON or CSV |
data.gov Collection |
Look for formats provided as CSV, JSON, or XML |
OpenFlights |
Airport, airline and route data |
OurAirports |
Similar to OpenFlights? |
World Bank Open Data |
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World Bank Projects & Operations |
All of the World Bank’s lending projects from 1947 to the present. The dataset includes basic information such as the project title, task manager, country, project id, sector, themes, commitment amount, product line, procurement notices, contract awards, and financing. |
UN Data |
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Global Shark Attack File |
provided as an Excel file (see Incident Log) that can be saved as CSV to use |
KickStarter Data Sets |
JSON format, web-scraped by a third party (large files) |
NYC Food Service Inspections |
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Baseball Dataset |
See the individually-available files on GitHub. |
(Approximately ordered according to the apparent quality of the collection.)