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30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web

30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web
Finding an interesting data set and a story it tells can be the most difficult part of producing an infographic or data visualization. Data visualization is the end artifact, but it involves multiple steps – finding reliable data, getting the data in the right format, cleaning it up (an often underestimated step in the amount of time it takes!) and then finding the story you will eventually visualize. Following is a list useful resources for finding data. Your needs will vary from one project to another, but this list is a great place to start — and bookmark. 1. Data.gov: This is the go-to resource for government-related data. 2. These are the places that house data from all kinds of sources. 3. Usually, the best place to get social data for an API is the site itself: Instagram, GetGlue, Foursquare, pretty much all social media sites have their own API’s. 4. Wunderground has detailed weather information and also let’s you search historical data by zip code or city. 5. 6. 7.

World Stats Interactive Maps - Index This index lists over 400 interactive world maps covering areas such as health, education, drugs & crime, economy, environment, gender and population for all countries. See also the data sources. Categories Most popular interactive maps Sports interactive maps: Most Popular Interactive Visualizations Anime rankings by genre - Discover the top anime by rating, popularity and genre. Indicators Digital Divide & ICT >Mobile and Telephone >Internet subscribers Drugs & Crime >Drugs >Homicide rates >Thefts and robbery Economy & Development >Agriculture >Employment >GDP and GDP growth >Inflation Inflation rate, average consumer prices >Human Development Index (HDI) >Inequality >Poverty and Aid >Research and Development >Unemployment Unemployment rate Education >Access >Education system >Expenditure >Gender equity >School life expectancy >Progression rates >>Repetition rates >>Survival rates >>Transition rates >Teachers >Tertiary Education Enrolment >Tertiary Education Fields >Quality of Education - All international studies Gender

POLITICA DEI SERVIZI SOCIALI WikiProject France/Limites administratives Le tracé des limites administratives françaises est complet depuis le 4 décembre 2013 (hors département de Mayotte) Une vidéo montrant la progression du tracé est disponible: Ce projet passe donc dans une phase de contrôle de qualité des tracés effectués entre mars 2008 et décembre 2013 ainsi qu'un suivi des changements de ces limites. Contrôle de la qualité Une première étude de contrôle de qualité a été faite sur les nœuds d'intersection de communes en comparaison avec le Route500 de l'IGN. Mise à jour: Suivi des modifications publiées au Journal Officiel Les changements de limites administratives peuvent être issus de fusions ou scissions de communes, ainsi que de modifications des limites territoriales entre deux communes. La liste ci-dessous a pour but de répertorier ces publications et la mise à jour faite (ou non) dans OSM: Les sources potentielles Guide pour les tracer cadget

Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens Data nerds from government and academia gathered Friday at Northeastern University to show off the latest version of Weave, an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize “any available data by anyone for any purpose.” The software has a lot of potential for journalists. Weave is supported by the Open Indicators Consortium, an unusual partnership of planning agencies and universities who wanted better tools to inform public policy and community decision-making. The groups organized and agreed to share data and code in 2008, well before Gov 2.0 was hot. Think of Weave as more programming language than app. Data is linked, which means you can view the same datapoint from many angles. The software reminds me of SPSS, from my college poli sci days. Georges Grinstein, a professor of computer science at UMass Lowell, develops Weave with a team of some 20 students.

Administrative units and Statistical units Administrative units / Statistical units In addition to the general copyright and licence policy applicable to the whole Eurostat web site, the following specific provisions apply to the datasets you are downloading. The download and usage of these data is subject to the acceptance of the following clauses: The Commission agrees to grant the non-exclusive and not transferable right to use and process the Eurostat/GISCO geographical data downloaded from this page (the "data"). Copyright notice When data downloaded from this page is used in any printed or electronic publication, in addition to any other provisions applicable to the whole Eurostat web site, data source will have to be acknowledged in the legend of the map and in the introductory page of the publication with the following copyright notice: EN: © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries FR: © EuroGeographics pour les limites administratives DE: © EuroGeographics bezüglich der Verwaltungsgrenzen

Public Data Sets : Amazon Web Services A corpus of web crawl data composed of over 5 billion web pages. This data set is freely available on Amazon S3 and is released under the Common Crawl Terms of Use. Last Modified: Mar 17, 2014 17:51 PM GMT Three NASA NEX datasets are now available, including climate projections and satellite images of Earth. Last Modified: Nov 12, 2013 13:27 PM GMT The Ensembl project produces genome databases for human as well as over 50 other species, and makes this information freely available. Last Modified: Oct 8, 2013 14:38 PM GMT Last Modified: Oct 8, 2013 14:37 PM GMT Human Microbiome Project Data Set Last Modified: Sep 26, 2013 17:58 PM GMT The 1000 Genomes Project, initiated in 2008, is an international public-private consortium that aims to build the most detailed map of human genetic variation available. Last Modified: Jul 18, 2012 16:34 PM GMT Last Modified: Apr 24, 2012 21:18 PM GMT Last Modified: Mar 4, 2012 3:22 AM GMT Last Modified: Feb 15, 2012 2:22 AM GMT Last Modified: Jan 21, 2012 2:12 AM GMT

Welcome - publicdata.eu Palgrave.com: Companion website Home / Learning Resources Weblinks There are many Internet sites concerned with issues of migration and ethnic diversity. Some of the most significant are listed here, arranged in to six categories. 1. Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN): APMRN carries out interdisciplinary research on the social and political aspects of international migration and the growing ethno-cultural diversity in the region. Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) CARIM was created in February 2004 to observe, analyse, and predict migration in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region. The CARIM website constitutes a tool for information and communication and is fed with data and contributions by experts of the countries studied: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and, since February 2007, also Libya and Mauritania. top 2. 3. Federation of Centers for Migration Studies, G. 4. 5. 6.

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