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While you can start with your state’s open-data catalog, often these catalogs are not comprehensive sources of available data, and relevant agencies need to be engaged to identify available data sets.
Additional Resources:
There are numerous aggregators of open data, including the following:
- Data.gov
- US Census Bureau
- European Union Open Data Portal
- Google’s Public Data Explorer
- Urban Institute
- World Bank
- World Health Organization
- Dataverse
- UN Data
- Enigma Public Data
- Depending on your field of interest, different federal agencies such as the EPA, the US Department of Labor, and the FBI offer access to free and machine-readable data
- The Lens (world’s largest open database of patents)
- OpenCorporates (world’s largest open database of companies)
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Where can you find the data to define your problem?
Does an agency of government collect data that would be useful for solving your specific problem?
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