Datasets for Data Mining

Data Visualization and Exploration Sites

• Google Public Data, with dynamic visualization and exploration tools.

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• Tableau Public, free software for visualizing and sharing data

Data repositories

• KDD Cup center, with all data, tasks, and results.
• UCI KDD Database Repository for large datasets used in machine learning and knowledge discovery research.
• UCI Machine Learning Repository.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) Public Data Sets, provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.
• Bioassay data, described in Virtual screening of bioassay data, by Amanda Schierz, J. of Cheminformatics, with 21 Bioassay datasets (Active / Inactive compounds) available for download.
• Canada Open Data, pilot project with many government and geospatial datasets.
• Causality Workbench data repository.
• Data Source Handbook, A Guide to Public Data, by Pete Warden, O'Reilly (Jan 2011).
• Data.gov.uk, publicly available data from UK (also London datastore.)
• Data.gov/Education, central guide for education data resources including high-value data sets, data visualization tools, resources for the classroom, applications created from open data and more.
• DataMarket, visualize the world's economy, societies, nature, and industries, with 100 million time series from UN, World Bank, Eurostat and other important data providers.
• Datamob, public data put to good use.
• DataSF.org, a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco, CA.
• DataFerrett, a data mining tool that accesses and manipulates TheDataWeb, a collection of many on-line US Goverment datasets.
• Delve, Data for Evaluating Learning in Valid Experiments
• EconData, thousands of economic time series, produced by a number of US Government agencies.
• Enron Email Dataset, data from about 150 users, mostly senior management of Enron.
• FEDSTATS, a comprehensive source of US statistics and more
• FIMI repository for frequent itemset mining, implementations and datasets.
• Financial Data Finder at OSU, a large catalog of financial data sets.
• GEO (GEO Gene Expression Omnibus), a gene expression/molecular abundance repository supporting MIAME compliant data submissions, and a curated, online resource for gene expression data browsing, query and retrieval.
• GeoDa Center, geographical and spatial data.
• Google ngrams datasets, text from millions of books scanned by Google.
• Grain Market Research, financial data including stocks, futures, etc.
• Hilary Mason research-quality Big Data sets collection - many text and image datasets.
• ICWSM-2009 dataset contains 44 million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008.
• Infochimps, an open catalog and marketplace for data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
• Investor Links, includes financial data
• Kevin Chai list of datasets, for text, SNA, and other fields.
• KONECT, the Koblenz Network Collection, with large network datasets of all types in order to perform research in the area of network mining.
• Linking Open Data project, at making data freely available to everyone.
• Million Song Dataset
• MIT Cancer Genomics gene expression datasets and publications, from MIT Whitehead Center for Genome Research.
• ML Data, the data repository of the EU Pascal2 networks.
• NASDAQ Data Store, provides access to market data.
• National Government Statistical Web Sites, data, reports, statistical yearbooks, press releases, and more from about 70 web sites, including countries from Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
• National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), NASA data sets from planetary exploration, space and solar physics, life sciences, astrophysics, and more.
• OpenData from Socrata, access to over 10,000 datasets including business, education, government, and fun.
• Peter Skomoroch dataset Bookmarks
• PubGene(TM) Gene Database and Tools, genomic-related publications database
• Robert Schiller data on housing, stock market, and more from his book Irrational Exuberance.
• SMD: Stanford Microarray Database, stores raw and normalized data from microarray experiments.
• SourceForge.net Research Data, includes historic and status statistics on approximately 100,000 projects and over 1 million registered users' activities at the project management web site.
• StatLib, CMU Datasets Archive.
• STATOO Datasets part 1 and STATOO Datasets part 2
• Time Series Data Library
• Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository.
• UCR Time Series Data Archive, offering datasets, papers, links, and code.
• United States Census Bureau.
• Wikiposit, a (virtual) amalgamation of (mostly financial) data from many different sites, allowing users to merge data from different sources
• Yahoo Sandbox datasets, Language, Graph, Ratings, Advertising and Marketing, Competition