Data: Where can I find large datasets open to the public

Databib | Research Data Repositories Research Data Repositories Datasets for Data Mining, Analytics and Knowledge Discovery See also Data repositories AssetMacro, historical data of Macroeconomic Indicators and Market Data. Awesome Public Datasets on github, curated by caesar0301. AWS (Amazon Web Services) Public Data Sets, provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. Related Where to Find Open Data on the Web Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitled "We Need a Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googler Bret Taylor, discussed the difficulty of finding open data sets on the internet, something which could spur innovation, allowing programmers to build new applications the likes of which have never been seen before. What was interesting about this story, in addition to, obviously, the concept of a Data Wiki itself, was the amazing and insightful commentary around this concept, not just on the blog, but all over the net, something which led to the discovery of some pretty good data sources that are already available. In Bret's story, he mentioned some of the common data sources currently available, like the US Census Bureau's map data and the Reuters corpus, but his commenters came up with a few more. (See? In addition, as CNet and Ryan Stewart's blog spread the story, more people chimed in with suggestions. So what did everyone come up with? Infochimps.org