Large public datasets? [closed]

Question

I am looking for some large public datasets, in particular:

1. Large sample web server logs that have been anonymized.

2. Datasets used for database performance benchmarking.

Any other links to large public datasets would be appreciated. I already know about Amazon's public datasets at: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/

Answer 1

Google Fusion Tables has a few.

http://tables.googlelabs.com/

Answer 2

http://Quandl.com has over 10 million data sets gleaned from all over the internet. The great thing about this resource is that it gives a single way to access all of the data. The site has a free Excel plug in or there are libraries in R, Python, Ruby, etc.

Answer 3

I am surprised no one mentioned Google N-Grams. More on N-Grams at http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html

Answer 4

Well, this one is new and there is a challenge behind it:

Million song dataset challenge

Answer 5

Based on Quora answers and my personal collections in my studies, an awesome-public-datasets repository was created and updated lively on GitHub:

Below is a snapshot version of this list. For a newest list, please visit Github:

This list of public data sources are collected and tidied from blogs, answers, and user responses. Most of the data sets listed below are free, however, some are not. This list comes from https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets.

Climate

• Australian Weather: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/
• Climate data: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/#datter and ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/
• Global climate data since 1929: http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate
• NOAA Bering Sea Climate: http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov/
• NOAA climate datasets: http://ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/quick-links
• WU Historical Weather Worldwide: http://www.wunderground.com/history/index.html

Economics

• American Economic Ass. (AEA): http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/toc.php?show=complete
• EconData (UMD): http://inforumweb.umd.edu/econdata/econdata.html
• Internet Product Code Database: http://www.upcdatabase.com/
• World bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator

Finance

• CBOE Futures Exchange: http://cfe.cboe.com/Data/
• Google Finance: https://www.google.com/finance
• Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
• NASDAQ: https://data.nasdaq.com/
• OANDA: http://www.oanda.com/
• OSU Financial data: http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/osudata.htm
• Quandl: http://www.quandl.com/
• St Louis Federal: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
• Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/

Biology

• CRCNS: http://crcns.org/data-sets
• Gene Expression Omnibus: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/
• Human Microbiome Project: http://www.hmpdacc.org/reference_genomes/reference_genomes.php
• MIT Cancer Genomics Data: http://www.broadinstitute.org/cgi-bin/cancer/datasets.cgi
• NIH Microarray data: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE6532/
• Protein structure: http://www.infobiotic.net/PSPbenchmarks/
• Public Gene Data: http://www.pubgene.org/
• Stanford Microarray Data: http://smd.stanford.edu/
• UniGene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/unigene

Physics

• NASA: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/obtaining_data.html

Healthcare

• EHDP Large Health Data Sets: http://www.ehdp.com/vitalnet/datasets.htm
• Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/data/
• Medicare Data File: http://go.cms.gov/19xxPN4

GeoSpace

• EOSDIS: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/sets/browse
• Factual Global Location Data: http://www.factual.com/
• Geo Spatial Data: http://geodacenter.asu.edu/datalist/

Transportation

• Airlines Data (2009 ASA Challenge): http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/the-data.html
• Airports and their locations: http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/airports-and-their-locations
• Bike Share Data Systems: https://github.com/BetaNYC/Bike-Share-Data-Best-Practices/wiki/Bike-Share-Data-Systems
• Edge data for US domestic flights 1990 to 2009: http://data.memect.com/?p=229
• Half a million Hubway rides: http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/trip-history-data/
• NYC Taxi Trip Data 2013 (FOIA/FOIL): https://archive.org/details/nycTaxiTripData2013
• OpenFlights (airport, airline and route data): http://openflights.org/data.html
• RITA Airline On-Time Performance Data: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?DB_ID=120
• RITA transport data collection: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DataIndex.asp
• Transport for London: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-feeds
• U.S. Freight Analysis Framework: http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm

Government

• Archive-it: : https://www.archive-it.org/explore?show=Collections
• Australia: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3301.02009?OpenDocument
• Canada: http://www.data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=5BCD274E-1
• Chicago: https://data.cityofchicago.org/
• FDA: https://open.fda.gov/index.html
• Fed Stats: http://www.fedstats.gov/cgi-bin/A2Z.cgi
• Guardian world governments: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data
• HUD: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/pdrdatas.html
• London Datastore, U.K: http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset
• New Zealand: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats.aspx
• NYC betanyc: http://betanyc.us/
• NYC Open Data: http://nycplatform.socrata.com/
• OECD: http://www.oecd.org/document/0,3746,en_2649_201185_46462759_1_1_1_1,00.html
• RITA: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/OT_Delay/OT_DelayCause1.asp
• San Francisco Data sets: http://datasf.org/
• The World Bank: http://wdronline.worldbank.org/
• U.K. Government Data: http://data.gov.uk/data
• U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/data.html
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies: http://www.data.gov/metric
• U.S. Federal Government Data Catalog: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset
• U.S. Open Government: http://www.data.gov/open-gov/
• UK 2011 Census Open Atlas Project: http://www.alex-singleton.com/2011-census-open-atlas-project/
• United Nations: http://data.un.org/
• US CDC Public Health datasets: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ftp_data.htm

Data Challenges

• Challenges in Machine Learning: http://www.chalearn.org/
• ICWSM Data Challenge (since 2009): http://icwsm.cs.umbc.edu/
• Kaggle Competition Data: http://www.kaggle.com/
• KDD Cup by Tencent 2012: https://www.kddcup2012.org/
• Netflix Prize: http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
• Yelp Dataset Challenge: http://www.yelp.com/dataset_challenge

Machine Learning

• eBay Online Auctions: http://www.modelingonlineauctions.com/datasets
• IMDb database: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
• Keel Repository: http://sci2s.ugr.es/keel/datasets.php
• Lending Club Loan Data: https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action
• Machine Learning Data Set Repository: http://mldata.org/
• Million Song Dataset: http://blog.echonest.com/post/3639160982/million-song-dataset
• More Song Datasets: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/pages/additional-datasets
• MovieLens Data Sets: http://datahub.io/dataset/movielens
• RDataMining R and Data Mining ebook data: http://www.rdatamining.com/data
• Registered meteorites on Earth: http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/registered-meteorites-that-has-impacted-on-earth-visualized
• SF restaurants dataset: http://missionlocal.org/san-francisco-restaurant-health-inspections/
• UCI Machine Learning Repository: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
• University of Toronto Delve Datasets: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~delve/data/datasets.html
• Yahoo Ratings and Classification Data: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r

Natural Language

• 40 Million Entities in Context: https://code.google.com/p/wiki-links/downloads/list
• ClueWeb09 FACC: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb09/FACC1/
• ClueWeb12 FACC: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb12/FACC1/
• Flickr personal taxonomies: http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/downloads/flickr/flickr_taxonomies.html
• Google Books Ngrams: http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/8172056142375670
• Google Web 5gram, 2006 (1T): https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T13
• Gutenberg eBooks List: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs
• Hansards: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/download/hansard/
• Machine Translation: http://statmt.org/wmt11/translation-task.html#download
• SMS Spam Collection: http://www.dt.fee.unicamp.br/~tiago/smsspamcollection/
• USENET corpus: http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/usenetcorpus.download.html
• WordNet: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/download/

Image Processing

• 2GB of photos of cats: http://bit.do/UJZZ
• Face Recognition Benchmark: http://www.face-rec.org/databases/
• ImageNet: http://www.image-net.org/

Time Series

• Time Series data Library: https://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=provider:tsdl
• UC Riverside Time Series: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/time_series_data/

Social Sciences

• China Hotel Checkin/out data: http://www.360doc.com/content/13/1105/13/7863900_326788919.shtml
• CMU Enron Email: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/
• Facebook Social Networks (since 2007): http://law.di.unimi.it/datasets.php
• Facebook100 (2005): https://archive.org/details/oxford-2005-facebook-matrix
• Foursquare (2010,2011): http://www.public.asu.edu/~hgao16/dataset.html
• Foursquare (UMN/Sarwat, 2013): https://archive.org/details/201309_foursquare_dataset_umn
• General Social Survey (GSS): http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/
• GetGlue (users rating TV shows): http://getglue-data.s3.amazonaws.com/getglue_sample.tar.gz
• GitHub Archive: http://www.githubarchive.org/
• ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp
• Mobile Social Networks (UMASS): https://kdl.cs.umass.edu/display/public/Mobile+Social+Networks
• PewResearch Internet Project: http://www.pewinternet.org/datasets/pages/2/
• Social Networking: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jelsas/data/ancestry.com/
• SourceForge Graph: http://www.nd.edu/~oss/Data/data.html
• Titanic Survival Data Set: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets/blob/master/Datasets/titanic.csv.zip
• Twitter Graph: http://an.kaist.ac.kr/traces/WWW2010.html
• UC Berkeley's D-Lab Achive: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/
• UCLA Social Sciences Data Archive: http://dataarchives.ss.ucla.edu/Home.DataPortals.htm
• UNIMI Social Network Datasets: http://law.di.unimi.it/datasets.php
• Universities Worldwide: http://univ.cc/
• UPJOHN for Employment Research: http://www.upjohn.org/erdc/erdc.html
• Yahoo Graph and Social Data: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=g
• Youtube Graph (2007,2008): http://netsg.cs.sfu.ca/youtubedata/

Complex Networks

• CrossRef DOI URLs: https://archive.org/details/doi-urls
• DBLP Citation dataset: https://kdl.cs.umass.edu/display/public/DBLP
• NBER Patent Citations: http://nber.org/patents/
• NIST complex networks data collection: http://math.nist.gov/~RPozo/complex_datasets.html
• Protein-protein interaction network: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/bio/Yeast/Yeast.htm
• PyPI and Maven Dependency Network: http://ogirardot.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/sharing-pypimaven-dependency-data/
• Scopus Citation Database: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus
• Stanford GraphBase (Steven Skiena): http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~algorith/implement/graphbase/implement.shtml
• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection: http://snap.stanford.edu/data/
• The Koblenz Network Collection: http://konect.uni-koblenz.de/
• UCI Network Data Repository: http://networkdata.ics.uci.edu/resources.php
• UFL sparse matrix collection: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/
• UNIMI Large Web Graph: http://law.di.unimi.it/datasets.php
• WSU Graph Database: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/mgd/gdb.html

Computer Networks

• 3.5B Web Pages: http://www.bigdatanews.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-set-3-5-billion-web-pages-made-available-for-all-of-us
• 53.5B Web clicks: http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/click-dataset
• CAIDA Internet Datasets: http://www.caida.org/data/overview/
• ClueWeb09: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb09/
• ClueWeb12: http://lemurproject.org/clueweb12/
• CommonCrawl Web Data: http://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/
• Dartmouth CRAWDAD Wireless datasets: http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/
• OpenMobileData (MobiPerf): https://console.developers.google.com/storage/openmobiledata_public/
• UCSD Network Telescope: http://www.caida.org/projects/network_telescope/

Data SEs

• Academic Torrents: http://academictorrents.com/
• Datahub.io: http://datahub.io/dataset
• DataMarket: https://datamarket.com/data/list/?q=all
• Harvard Dataverse: http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/
• Statista: http://www.statista.com/
• Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/

Public Doamins

• Amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
• Archive.org Datasets: https://archive.org/details/datasets
• CMU JASA data archive: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/jasadata/
• CMU StatLab collections: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
• Data360: http://www.data360.org/index.aspx
• Datamob.org: http://datamob.org/datasets
• Google: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
• infochimps: http://www.infochimps.com/
• KDNuggets Data Collections: http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html
• Numbray: http://numbrary.com/
• RevolutionAnalytics Collection: http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/subscriptions/datasets/
• Sample R data sets: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/datasets/html/00Index.html
• Stats4Stem R data sets: http://www.stats4stem.org/data-sets.html
• StatSci.org: http://www.statsci.org/datasets.html
• The Washington Post List: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/data/datapost.html
• UCLA SOCR data collection: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_Data
• UFO Reports: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports.html
• Wikileaks 911 pager intercepts: http://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html
• Yahoo Webscope: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php

Complementary Collections

• DataWrangling: http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web
• Inside-r: http://www.inside-r.org/howto/finding-data-internet
• Quora: http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public
• RS Collection 100+ : http://rs.io/2014/05/29/list-of-data-sets.html
• StaTrek: http://hsiamin.com/posts/2014/10/23/leveraging-open-data-to-understand-urban-lives/

Answer 6

Datasets available here as well.