Ask HN: Where I can get free data?

3 points by matysanchez 12 years ago · 6 comments · 1 min read

I am looking to create some examples with D3, and I need some free data.

For example: historical price of oil, weather in X city, etc.

Is there any website with tons of free data?

5 threads

mindcrime 12 years ago

http://datasets.reddit.com

http://opendata.reddit.com

http://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-are-some-intere...

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to...

http://www.bea.gov/

http://www.data.gov/

http://academictorrents.com/

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/

taurenk 12 years ago

Here's a good spot if your looking for some US Healthcare data:

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/

maxerickson 12 years ago

EIA has all sorts of data sets focused on energy:

http://www.eia.gov/

matysanchezOP 12 years ago

Nice links you share with me. Thank you everybody!

danso 12 years ago

For climate data, the U.S. NOAA is probably the go-to stop:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/

I know lots of other data sources, but don't feel it's worth your while for me to list them...just because data exists somewhere doesn't mean that it's easy to understand and/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:

The OpenData StackExchange: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/

And the datasets subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/datasets

And of course, there is the visualization subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful