data sets

[mattdesl]

collecting some data sets that might be interesting

25k NYC RESTAURANTS

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/38ao8w/25231_geocoded_nyc_restaurants/

GOLDEN RECORD

Contains songs and other audio/visual things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/golden-record-greetings-to-the

RADIO STATIONS

http://www.programmableweb.com/news/50000-radio-stations-one-api/2012/01/26

HISTORICAL BOOK IMAGES

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/

TAXI TRIP DATA

e.g. Google Street View viz w/ prices
http://www.andresmh.com/nyctaxitrips/

ALBUM COVERS

https://archive.org/details/audio-covers
3D "Galaxy View" as if each star is an album cover.

USGS MAPS

https://archive.org/details/maps_usgs

MUSEUM

https://archive.org/details/brooklynmuseum
https://archive.org/details/metropolitanmuseumofart-gallery

NASA

https://archive.org/details/nasa

NASA APOLLO 11 AUDIO

https://archive.org/details/Apollo11Audio
Visualize the audio waveform for the whole trip ?

WIKIPEDIA API

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
Lots of cool potential

GOOGLE TRENDS API

Not really a public API but ways of scraping it

100 DATA SETS

http://rs.io/100-interesting-data-sets-for-statistics/

INMATES LAST WORDS ON DEATH ROW

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html

YELP REVIEWS

https://www.yelp.com/academic_dataset
Google Street View mashup - "pub crawl" through a city?

TERRORIST DATA

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/contact/

NUTRITION DATA

https://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964
http://foodb.ca/foods?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q[name_cont]=&q[name_scientific_cont]=&q[food_group_cont]=&q[food_subgroup_cont]=&button=

US DRONE KILLS OVERLAID w/ MAP

(inspiration: https://vimeo.com/135580602)
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drones/drones-graphs/

MOVIE QUOTE DB

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html

• quizzes
• quote searching

NETFLIX MOVIE GENRES

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnOprSK9amzKbfH8mL-yZz9nX-0dcrCRSJkpOw-Xf3U/edit#gid=0

POLICE KILLINGS SINCE 2013

http://www.crowdflower.com/blog/a-database-of-police-killings-since-2013

MILITARY GIVING TO POLICE

https://github.com/datahoarder/leso_1033

GOOGLE STREET VIEW STUFF

• route popular pilgrimages through Google Street View (e.g. Way of St. James, Isle of Man, the middle eastern one)
• Tour de France on bikes
• Bar crawl?
• Follow a celebrity?
• Follow taxi or police/fire in real time?

70 APIS

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/421886/the-70-online-databases-that-define-our-planet/?utm_source=twitterfeeddtn&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=DTNDelicious