Big Data: 50 Fascinating and Free Data Sources for Data Visualization
Have you ever felt frustrated when try to look for some data on Google? Pages of relevant websites but none can fulfill your expectation? Have you ever felt that your articles are less persuasive without data support?
General Data
World Health Organization – World Health Organization offers data and analysis on global health priorities, like world hunger, health, and disease.
The Broad Institute – The Broad Institute offers a number of data sets in biology and medicine.
Amazon Web Service – Amazon Web Service is a cross-science cloud-based data platform concerning Chemistry, Biology, Economy, and so on. It is also an attempt to build the most comprehensive database of human genetic information and NASA’s database of satellite imagery of Earth.
Figshare – Figshare is a platform for sharing research results. In here, you would be able to see some amazing findings from amazing people around the globe.
UCLA – Sometimes UCLA shares some of their findings in research papers.
UCI Machine Learning Repository – This website currently maintains 394 data sets as a service to the machine learning community
Github – Some cool guys built the GitHub community, sharing bunch of awesome data sets. Now the data inside is offered by everyone, and offered to everyone.
Pew Research Center – Pew Research Center offers its raw data from its fascinating research into American life.
Government Data
Data.gov – Data.gov is the home of the U.S. government’s open data. You could find data, tools and resources here to conduct research, data visualization, etc.
US Census Bureau – US Census Bureau is a wealth of information on the lives of US citizens covering population data, geographic data and education.
Open Data Network – Open Data Network is an easy-searching website for you to find government related data, with nice visualization tools built-in.
European Union Open data portal – The European Union Open Data is for accessing a growing range of data from European Union Institution.
Canada Open Data – Canada Open Data enables you to get quick, easy access to the government of Canada‘s most requested services and information.
Open Government Data – This website provides visitors with great open government data from US, EU, Canada, CKAN, and more.
The CIA World Factbook – The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
