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As I continue to research this today, I grow more and more amazed at the lack of public data sets. There are what? A million different websites that keep some kind of list of something? And I'm finding only a dozen or two databases publicly accessible? It's crazy. Everybody either wants to charge or actively wants to prevent you from getting their data -- even when the data is common knowledge, was gathered at public expense, etc.

Anybody from Google on? There has to be some shortcuts here somewhere.




Amazon Public Data Sets: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/

It is fast and easy to use if you are already using EC2.




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