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A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

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Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch Overture Foundation for open map data

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What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap?

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Smithsonian Open Access

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The Overflow Offline project

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Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us?

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Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API

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Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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OpenAlex: The Promising Alternative to Microsoft Academic Graph

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Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house

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The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard

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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap

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Election Battleground State Changes

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Indoor Mapping Data Format

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Placeholder – Offline Coarse Geocoder Backed by SQLite

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Google Earth Timelapse

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There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance after Moore’s law

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ClimaCell Weather API: fully customizable hyper-local API

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ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data

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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse

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Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data

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Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web

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Academic Torrents

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Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Million Song Dataset

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Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph

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CERN Open Data Portal: Explore more than 2 PB of open data from particle physics

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Hacker News BigQuery Dataset

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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset

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Blockstream Satellite API: Pay with BTC via Lightning to Broadcast Data Globally

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How We Mapped 1.3M Data Points Using Mapbox

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How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap

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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

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Walt Disney Animation Studios Datasets

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Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor

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Kaggle Datasets – Discover and analyze open data

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The Piranha of Portugal: the Greatest Counterfeiter of All Time (2014)

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Canadian open data portal

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United States Census Bureau APIs

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CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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DigitalGlobe satellite imagery launch for OpenStreetMap

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Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development

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Mirroring US climate data

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Announcing RStudio v1.0

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Hacker News Dataset Update October 2016

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Best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects

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We’re in the Middle of a Data Engineering Talent Shortage

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Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets

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NASA Data Portal

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Applying machine learning to Infosec

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Panama Papers Dataset 2016

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Data USA: Comprehensive Visualization of U.S. Public Data

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Show HN: Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets

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Mapzen Search: An open source geocoding api built on open data

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Nasa Open Datasets

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A curated list of data science blogs

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The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues

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How we're using git-annex to make a backup of the Internet Archive

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100M Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research

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An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system

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Large Public Datasets

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Global heatmap of cycling and running routes

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Open Data Stack Exchange

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Academic Torrents

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NYC has released data for every tax lot in the city. Here is my first look

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OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic data for the world

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Thousands of Public Data Sources

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Academia.edu - Share research

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A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam

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School of Data - Learn how to find, process, analyze and visualize data

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How Google Builds Its Maps

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US Census API now available

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The US Census now has an API

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Where can I get large datasets open to the public?

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Edward Tufte's impression of Windows Phone 7

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Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)

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'Remove Google Background' surges to number 2 in Google Trends

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The Hacker Survey

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City of Boulder Open Data

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Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing

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Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps

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You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents

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OpenStreetMap's 20th Anniversary Celebration is August 9

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Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?

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MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap

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