Open Data Sets
Open Data Sets
In simple terms, Open Data means the kind of data which is open for anyone and everyone for access, modification, reuse, and sharing.
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World Bank Open Data - At the World Bank, the Development Data Group coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of macro, financial and sector databases.
WHO(World Health Organization) - Open Data repository is how WHO keeps track of health-specific statistics of its 194 Member States.
Google Public Data Explorer - Google Public Data Explorer can help you explore vast amounts of public-interest datasets. You can visualize and communicate the data for your respective uses.
Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA) - This is a repository containing public datasets. It is data which is available from AWS resources. In RODA, you can use keywords and tags for common types of data such as genomic, satellite imagery and transportation in order to search whatever data that you are looking for. All of this is possible on a simple web interface.
FiveThirtyEight - It provides its various sources of data for a variety of sectors such as politics, sports, science, economics etc.
U.S. Census Bureau - U.S. Census Bureau is the biggest statistical agency of the federal government. It stores and provides reliable facts and data regarding people, places, and economy of America.
Data.gov - Data.gov is the treasure-house of US government’s open data. It was only recently that the decision was made to make all government data available for free.
Yelp Open Datasets - The Yelp dataset is basically a subset of nothing but our own businesses, reviews and user data for use in personal, educational and academic pursuits.
UNICEF Dataset - UNICEF concerns itself with a wide variety of critical issues, it has compiled relevant data on education, child labor, child disability, child mortality, maternal mortality, water and sanitation, low birth-weight, antenatal care, pneumonia, malaria, iodine deficiency disorder, female genital mutilation/cutting, and adolescents.
Kaggle - Kaggle promotes the use of different dataset publication formats. However, the better part is that it strongly recommends that the dataset publishers share their data in an accessible, non-proprietary format.
NYC Open Data - Open Data is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.