Sample Data in TXT/CVS format

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Permalink Reply by Laurence A. Lee on June 2, 2009 at 10:31am

Tried the US Census data yet? http://www.census.gov/popest/datasets.html

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Permalink Reply by Konstantin A Lukin on June 2, 2009 at 10:41am

Thanks, Laurence! Good stuff. Here is another one to get music info

http://magnatune.com/info/api

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Permalink Reply by Nate Sanders on June 2, 2009 at 11:52am

I was looking for stuff like this recently, too. I found this: theinfo.org

I haven't had a chance to look it over carefully, so I'm not certain it's what you're looking for.

I'm interested in large datasets, but I'm also interested in finding a large repository of documents for some document analysis stuff that I'm working on in my spare time.

-- Nate

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Permalink Reply by Konstantin A Lukin on June 2, 2009 at 12:05pm

HI Nate, this is great, thanks!

I was almost thinking it would be great if some company, such as Google, for example, started hosting Sample Data Sets of useful information that is easily accessible via a variety of methods, such as txt, cvs, xml...

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Permalink Reply by Ken Berkun on June 2, 2009 at 12:08pm

Have you tried Wolfram Alpha?



Ken

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Permalink Reply by Ken Berkun on June 2, 2009 at 12:15pm

from google on: "car sales data"

http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html

from wolframalpha on: "car sales data" after clicking on source info, this looks like a gold mine:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/


ken

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Permalink Reply by Konstantin A Lukin on June 2, 2009 at 12:15pm

Hi Ken, pretty cool! thanks.

Their developer API section looks interesting..

http://www.wolframalpha.com/developers.html

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