Finding Data

Consists of a diverse field of datasets (360 datasets currently and still growing) for the purpose of performing analytics and machine learning algorithms. http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

Perfect for exploring data through visualization. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

These are large datasets which deal with memory in gigabytes or terabytes. https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/

A dataset provided by Google, including Book corpus, US names, Genome dataset, BIg Query dataset, and many more. https://cloud.google.com/public-datasets/

Thousands of free datasets for exploration. https://opendata.socrata.com/

A website dedicated to supply datasets of different domains, eg. Education, Nutrient, Sports. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?res_format=CSV

Just as its tagline states, “The easy way to get, share data”. https://datahub.io/dataset?tags=weather

Find most of the datasets used for research purpose, and cited in different publications.  https://dataverse.harvard.edu/

Have a problem coming up with a problem statement? No worries, KDD provides you with the dataset and problem statements through its
challenges. http://www.kdd.org/kdd-cup

More challenges to solve with datasets. https://www.crowdanalytix.com/community

Problems for data scientists to solve.
https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/

Tackle real problem with these analytics, and also win a challenge. https://bigdatainnovationchallenge.org/challenges/food-security-nutrition/

Details of population in different cities of countries is just a click away with this open data. http://census.okfn.org/en/latest/

Census data of United States. http://www.census.gov/data.html

Want to work with weather data? Use Wunderground’s API to get your own dataset.  https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/

Climate datasets available for
analytics. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets

It consists of documents from the BBC news website corresponding to stories in five topical areas. http://mlg.ucd.ie/datasets/bbc.html

A collection of news datasets from the guardian, which is updated
regularly. https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/14/all-our-datasets-index

The data are provided by the Center of Nutritional Policy and Promotion giving details about food prices dataset, health eating index. https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/data

A blog listing some of dataset relating to the domain of nutrition.
http://nutsci.org/open-nutrition- food-data/