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What is the income distribution in the U.S., in 1% increments?
added by Lorin Hochstein Dec 11 '11 at 1:12
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Where can I find a list of cities of population more than one million with their populations and locations worldwide?
added by Christopher Schmidt Jan 9 '12 at 1:08
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What are the best (and if possible free) tools to extract tables from PDF files?
added by Fr. Dec 25 '12 at 3:22
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Similar question with some useful answers: getthedata.org/questions/339/… – Rufus Pollock Mar 26 at 9:43
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What is the equivalent of the Gini coefficient for the distribution of income taxes paid in the U.S.?
added by Lorin Hochstein Dec 11 '11 at 1:07
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How many people have immigrated from Canada to the U.S., and vice versa, each year for the past 20 years?
added by Lorin Hochstein Dec 11 '11 at 1:08
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Public construction projects (any U.S. state): Did they meet schedule and budget? If overran, how much?
added by Lorin Hochstein Dec 11 '11 at 1:19
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Public IT projects (any U.S. state): Did they meet schedule and budget? If overran, how much?
added by Lorin Hochstein Dec 11 '11 at 1:19
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Too general, not much related to the topic – N e w B e e Mar 9 '12 at 9:57
I would have to disagree with above: It'd be better if rephrased, but still pertinent. – LanceLafontaine Apr 6 '12 at 3:02
I can think of data sources that could provide part of the answer to this question (i.e. "what was spent?"), perhaps not "did it meet budget?". usaspending.gov for example – Andrew Fogg May 11 '12 at 10:57
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How can I find literacy rates/other measure of educational attainment disaggregated by region/sex/race/type of school?
added by Verbeia Jan 7 '12 at 20:57
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What is the Loss Given Default (LGD) distribution for financial institutions?
added by Sjoerd C. de Vries Jan 8 '12 at 9:11
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Where can I find United States county-by-county population numbers with age distributions?
added by Christopher Schmidt Jan 9 '12 at 1:07
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How can I find county-by-county vote counts for recent United States presidential races?
added by Christopher Schmidt Jan 9 '12 at 1:07
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Finding the percentage of people having more then $ 250k (very very rich) in Pakitan?
added by N e w B e e Mar 1 '12 at 17:11
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Did you mean Pakistan? – Harry Wood Oct 17 '12 at 11:39
Did you mean "than?" – buckminst Apr 17 at 16:26
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How can I figure out the amount of black money being transferred from any country to America?
added by N e w B e e Mar 9 '12 at 9:53
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What is black money? – Feral Oink Feb 18 at 11:58
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What are the best methods of measuring the quality of a dataset?
added by Jennifer Davis Apr 25 '12 at 4:26
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Do data exist somewhere for clinical trials that were registered, but never published results?
added by Tom May 30 '12 at 6:52
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Does this mean "is there a data repository?" because if not then yes, of course there is data, on private machines, or on university backup, but you'll never find it publicly without doing some serious investigation beforehand – naught101 Jun 20 '12 at 8:12
I didn't ask that in a very clear way. – Tom Jun 21 '12 at 8:40
What I was going for is there a list of clinical trials that registered, but didn't publish. – Tom Jun 21 '12 at 8:40
So you could compute some number like XX% of clinical trials don't publish their results. – Tom Jun 21 '12 at 8:41
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What are good datasets for historical support for the death penalty in the U.S.?
added by Tom H May 30 '12 at 13:53
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What data sets are available that I could use if I wanted to create a 'happiness index' for each country?
added by Jan Doggen Jun 6 '12 at 15:13
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Where can I find data about individual players performance in football leagues?
added by Max Sep 4 '12 at 15:31
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How can I find costs for public utility infrastructure maintenance and improvement?
added by NewAlexandria Oct 4 '12 at 4:06
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Is there a "piratebay" (p2p torrent sharing site) for historical financial data and other technically free datasets?
added by boulder_ruby Nov 30 '12 at 20:46
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Where can I find worldwide list of cities with administration units they belong to, if possible with streets and postal codes?
added by Łukasz Lech Dec 30 '12 at 15:15
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How to find list of the most popular surnames and first names with occurence count for all (as much as possible) countries?
added by Łukasz Lech Dec 30 '12 at 15:17
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I work in local government and we are considering releasing <Data set X>. What are the risks of releasing this information?
added by boisvert Jan 26 at 17:51
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Where can I find data about the state of the worlds' forests (area, type, composition over the years)?
added by Jan Doggen Feb 6 at 15:43
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What are relevant and exhaustive data sources regarding transit infrastructures spending for [country]
added by Vince Oct 9 '12 at 7:51
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GDP for each country of the world over the last 15 years
added by Mite Mitreski Jan 29 at 0:41
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The IMF has a database where you can get the world economic outlook (which includes GDP) data on a country level through 1999 (not quite 15 years) imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/02/weodata/… – batpigandme Apr 12 at 16:42
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I need estimates about the amount of data people process every day (lets make it word counts and ignore photo/video), distributed over time and space.
added by Jan Doggen Feb 6 at 15:50
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What's a good tool to manage the data sets I use (source, date, versions)?
added by Vince Feb 6 at 8:54
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If I want to make an older, health-related, data-set publicly available, what is a good online forum to publish it in, and what about HIPAA?
added by Jezibelle Oct 27 '12 at 19:57
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How can I find the median average (not mean) income in my country?
added by SF. Jan 25 at 14:49
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There's a huge disproportion between normal jobs and management positions in my country. The consensus is "Nobody earns the mean average salary" - great most is considerably lower; a small margin is enormously larger. Median would much more accurately depict the income of an average citizen. – SF. Jan 25 at 14:51
What is "median average?" You want either the median or the average. I'm confused. – gerrit Feb 13 at 14:46
@gerrit: There are many types of averages, Median is one of them. – SF. Feb 13 at 15:18
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GDP is considered to the scale of economy growth for a country, can we use GDP for a region containing more then one country?
added by N e w B e e Feb 1 at 23:17
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I'd like to make a map of Car Sales Tax by county/state. Is there a central source for this data, or should I fire up the screen scraper?
added by solvingPuzzles Feb 6 at 19:39
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What are the statistics for the percentage of illegitimate babies in US?
added by Corone Feb 19 at 14:53
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This was a real question posted on CV (closed off topic as per FAQ) – Corone Feb 19 at 14:54
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There is lots of labeled data for positive and negative sentiment analysis, but where can I find labeled data for neutral sentiment (not objective)?
added by Wesley Baugh Feb 28 at 22:31
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Where can I find a list of ocean going oil tankers and their owners?
added by Rufus Pollock Mar 15 at 13:28
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Is there a good format for a structured catalogue of government "open data" datasets? All I've seen are human-readable catalogues, which don't scale.
added by Jim DeLaHunt Mar 3 at 8:29
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Asked at programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/188965/… but someone suggested copying it here as an example question. – Jim DeLaHunt Mar 3 at 8:31
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What's the best tool for scraping data from websites?
added by Rufus Pollock Mar 15 at 12:28
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Looking for aggregated/anonimized data sets for personal health data, collected by the 'gizmos' we see more and more.
added by Jan Doggen Mar 19 at 11:25
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I can see what you're trying to ask with this question but I think it could use some rewording. Maybe give an example of a "gizmo" like the Wahoo Armband. – MCeley Mar 26 at 18:48
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Where I can find record sets for volunteer activities, e.g. amount/time and type of activities that people participate in; in Europe?
added by Jan Doggen Mar 19 at 11:28
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Where to obtain average and SD of paternal ages at birth in US and Minnesota?
added by Ruben Apr 3 at 16:26
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