Places for Data

Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Site is maintained by the US General Services Administration.

In wiki format, Data Repositories is a listing of repositories and databases for open data. It is arranged by broad subject area.

With DBpedia, you can semantically search and explore relationships and properties of Wikipedia resource. This includes links to other related datasets as well.

The EPA provides information about factors impacting the environment, from air quality data to information about pollutants and watersheds.

Access to European Union open data

Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. A general purpose repository. Very useful if a specific subject data repository is not available or appropriate for your data.

The statistics and numbers behind headlines - sources for sports, politics, and current trends.

Data repository curated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Perform a Google search for public datasets.

Explore public data curated by Google

Repository of datasets from multiple publishers, available for open access.

Search 10.8 million datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories

Mission data as well as satellite data is available through NASA's site.

NOAA provides daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, and climate monitoring in addition to archival access to weather data (atmospheric and ocean conditions).

Search NPS for data management, historical park information, and live cameras at each of their locations.

Re3data is the Registry of Research Data Repositories. It is a useful resource for finding appropriate data repositories to discover and share chemical data.

This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via Amazon Web Services resources.

Comprehensive list of data repositories published by Nature.

UA's official document and data repository. Suitable for all data types - search the world map by institution or location.

"It serves as a comprehensive repository of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms."

"Since UNICEF concerns itself with a wide variety of critical issues, it has compiled relevant data on education, child labor, child disability, child mortality, maternal mortality, water and sanitation, low birth-weight, antenatal care, pneumonia, malaria, iodine deficiency disorder, mutilation/cutting, and adolescents."

USGS provides information about natural disasters such as forest fires to earth quakes. In addition, geographic features such as rocks and mineral repositories are also mapped.

Demographic data obtained through the US census.

This catalog is the authoritative source of publicly available USDA data.

The Commerce Department collects data on the Nation’s economy, population, and environment.

FWS provides information about species across the United States.

Links to DGIF's GIS data sets (in addition to links to the metadata).

Open access repository of data from countries all over the world.