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Ask HN: Where I can get free data?

3 pointsby matysanchezalmost 11 years ago
I am looking to create some examples with D3, and I need some free data.<p>For example: historical price of oil, weather in X city, etc.<p>Is there any website with tons of free data?

5 comments

mindcrimealmost 11 years ago
<a href="http://datasets.reddit.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.reddit.com</a><p><a href="http://opendata.reddit.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opendata.reddit.com</a><p><a href="http://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-are-some-interesting-public-datasets-to-visualize?share=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Data-Visualization&#x2F;What-are-some-intere...</a><p><a href="http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public?share=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to...</a><p><a href="http://www.bea.gov/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bea.gov&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http://www.data.gov/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.data.gov&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http://academictorrents.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;academictorrents.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https://snap.stanford.edu/data/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snap.stanford.edu&#x2F;data&#x2F;</a>
taurenkalmost 11 years ago
Here&#x27;s a good spot if your looking for some US Healthcare data:<p><a href="http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cms.gov&#x2F;Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems&#x2F;</a>
maxericksonalmost 11 years ago
EIA has all sorts of data sets focused on energy:<p><a href="http://www.eia.gov/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;</a>
matysanchezalmost 11 years ago
Nice links you share with me. Thank you everybody!
dansoalmost 11 years ago
For climate data, the U.S. NOAA is probably the go-to stop:<p><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncdc.noaa.gov&#x2F;cdo-web&#x2F;</a><p>I know lots of other data sources, but don&#x27;t feel it&#x27;s worth your while for me to list them...just because data exists somewhere doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s easy to understand and&#x2F;or easy to publish...but I can point you to a couple of places where you can talk to others and get advice on it:<p>The OpenData StackExchange: <a href="http://opendata.stackexchange.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opendata.stackexchange.com&#x2F;</a><p>And the datasets subreddit: <a href="http://reddit.com/r/datasets" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;datasets</a><p>And of course, there is the visualization subreddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful</a>