1. Publicly Available Data Sources (Free)
Spring 2016
MIS 496a
Sagar Samtani and Hsinchun Chen

2. Name of Data Source
Description
Data Formats
URL
Data.gov
Data from: Agriculture, Business, climate, consumer, ecosystem, education, energy, finance, health, local government manufacturing, public safety, science and research
HTML, XML, XLSX, CSV, PDF, shapefile, txt, zip
Figshare
Data from: Various sciences (Astronomy, biological, environmental, information, etc.), engineering, commerce, management, tourism
XLSX, Zip, XML, CSV, PDF
Enigma
Search engine for publicly available datasets (sciences, research, government, commerce, marketing, business, etc.)
XLSX, CSV
Kaggle
Product, insurance, forum comments, twitter data, images
CSV, XLSX, SQL
KD Nuggets
Data sets designed specifically for data mining tasks
JSON, CSV, SQL, XLSX
ML Vis
Repository of scientific datasets for visualization
CSV