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Ask HN: Where I can get free data?
3 points by matysanchez 4342 days ago
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 comments

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

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

EIA has all sorts of data sets focused on energy:

http://www.eia.gov/

Nice links you share with me. Thank you everybody!
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