Data for Research

Sometimes, it can be hard to find just the right time series for testing a new algorithm.

My own stuff

I have my own data repository. Quite small!

Massive

• Amazon web services host a public data set repository.

Hunt and Kill Terrorists

• Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data (TWEED) (you might need GNU PSPP software)

Geology

• Earthquake Catalogs & Data (Seismic waveforms)

Astronomy

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (access is through online SQL queries)
• The Sunspot Cycle (sun spots time series)

Motion Capture

• CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database (includes time series)

Biomedical

• EEG Data
• RR series (from ECG)
• Physiobank (various biomedical including ECGs)
• AtGenExpress (gene expression)

e-Commerce

• Book and media data through Amazon web services (free)

Financial

• FXHistory : historical exchange rates
• Yahoo Finance
• Penn World Table

Meteorological

• The EREC Weather Station makes available
  lots of weather data and even more.

Climate and environmental data

• Earth Trends : data tables.
• lifeunderyourfeet: soil data collected from wireless sensors
• Envirofacts Data Warehouse
• European Climate Assessment&DataSet
• National Space Science & Technology Center
  • Documentation
  • a data file
  • another data file
• Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia

Motion

• WhaleNet (satellite trackings of various animals)

Blog

• Weblogs and social media 2007
• Blog06

OCR

• The ISRI OCR Performance Toolkit

Collaborative Filtering

• Netflix prize data set

Text and XML

• Wikipedia dumps (over 900 GB)
• XMLData Repository
• Linguistic Data Consortium
• GOV2 corpus
• Yahoo’s research data sets
• The Google n-gram data set
• Enron Email DataSet
• US Patents
• Reuter Corpora
• Project Gutenberg
• Oxford Text Archive
• Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
• DBLP XML dump

Web Monitoring

• Google Blog Search allows you to get the data back as XML, and for any time frame you specify (in days).
• a large collection of feeds as well as software to collect more
• Feedster
• Blogdigger
• Pubsub

Web Graphs

• Laboratory of Web Algorithmics Data Sets

Sounds

• Underwater Sounds Recorded in Glacier Bay

Voice

• free audiobooks (librivox)
• CBC Radio webcast

Web 2.0

(Where people share data sets freely.)

• MB*Base (giant, generic, data warehouse: very good)
• Swivel (giant, generic, data warehouse)
• Many Eyes

Time Series (Various)

• United Nations data (lots of various year-by-year time series)
• Time Series Data Library (wide range of times series, most of them small)
• Eamonn Keogh’s collection of Time Series and his more recent shape data

Various

• UCI Machine Learning Repository
• Frequent Itemset Mining Dataset Repository (includes a traffic accident data set having 340,184 records with 50 dimensions, plus the WebDocs data set having over one million transactions)
• Several links to good data sets for research on del.icio.us
• StatLib-Datasets Archive (good stuff!)
• UCI KDD (includes EEG)

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Not really data, but useful nonetheless:

 

Synthetic data generator

• TPC DBGEN (data warehousing)

General documentation on Time Series theory

• Wolfram documentation

General Time Series software

• TDDTool is great time series plotting software

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