Data, Data, Data

• http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/
• http://thedatahub.org/
• http://www.infochimps.com/datasets
• Project Gutenberg – 40,000+ free books
• Million Song Dataset – descriptors for 1,000,000+ popular songs
• Research Quality Data Sets – collected by Hilary Mason (@hmason)
• WordNet – a large lexical database of English words
• Google Public Data – thousands of datasets
• Yahoo! Research Datasets – datasets about language, networks, etc.
• Konect: the Koblenz Network – collection of network datasets
• Pachube (clearinghouse for live data streams, from sensors etc.)

Some API’s

• The API Dashboard
• U.S. Government API’s
• NPR API’s

Personal Visualization / Quantified Self

• Fitbit
• Quantified Self
• IOGraph
• WattVision, for your energy usage
• DrinkingDiary, for your alcohol intake
• Bedposted, for your sex
• RunKeeper, for your running paths
• LastGraph, for your music
• And yet more tools for helping people keep track of data about yourself

Other Resources

• Mechanical Turk (tool for organizing low-cost human data labor)
• OpenPaths (tool for collecting your GPS wanderings)
• Microaggressions (data set / collection tool)