Open Data Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Time-Series data viewer Looking for a way of visualizing public power generation data. Typical data set has 1–5 years of hourly data, and anything up to 30 columns. Needing to pan and zoom, and perhaps select sections. Needs ... tool-request time-series visualization   asked by scruss 7 votes answered by philshem 4 votes Downloadable smartphones data (name, specs) I'm searching for product data, right now I only need smartphone data. I need like every smartphone name and specifications like width, CPU speed, etc. Now I found some reference to semantics3.com ... data-request products europe telecom   asked by vincent kleine 6 votes answered by Skram 3 votes Has there been a spike in the birth rate in Germany? About 40 weeks ago Germany won the FIFA World Cup. At the time I thought there would be a noticeable jump in the Birth Rate there. I've been searching for current information but I can only find ... data-request germany demographics   asked by Ben Plont 4 votes answered by André Peseur 5 votes The graph of the web: the dataset of links between web pages I was looking for the dataset of links between web pages and found these options: Common Crawl: Public web crawling data. It includes "the HTTP headers returned and the links (including the type of ... data-request web-crawling internet   asked by Anton 3 votes Water level historical data for California I am looking for data attesting for the variation of fresh water availability in California over the years (ideally 20+ years). For instance river levels, river throughput, wells levels. If data is ... data-request data.gov json csv   asked by user2298562 3 votes answered by Joe 1 vote Recent Macroeconomics dataset of all countries in the World I need a dataset that contains recent macroeconomics attributes for countries. I have tried to make my own by joining Wikipedia tables on GDP, GDP per capita, population, poverty, imports, exports, ... data-request economics county   asked by Ahmedov 3 votes answered by André Peseur 3 votes Where can I get in-car camera data? I want to write an application which takes a single image an classifies each pixel as "street" or "not street". To do so, I need training / testing data. One possible application is for self-driving ... data-request images   asked by moose 2 votes answered by Anton 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: A web API user's guide for free and open data There are many web-based Application Programming Interfaces (API) that allow data-hungry people to get their hands on all sorts of data. It's a great way to collect data as-needed, instead of looking ... api best-practice web-crawling programming   asked by philshem 7 votes answered by philshem 11 votes Graph visualization/analysis tool? Since the Harvard Business Review claimed that Data Scientist is The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century, graph analysis and big data are becoming very popular topics at my university. I'm familiar with ... tool-request analysis visualization   asked by RSFalcon7 18 votes answered by skyebend 5 votes Can you answer these? Open content health tips that I can embed in my app/website I am looking for open-source or publicly-available health tips for my app. I am so far not successful in finding any thing alike. Example of a health tip: Title: Carrots are good for your health ... api-request food   asked by THE 2 votes Where to download dynamics demonstration videos for motion analysis? I'm looking for videos of demonstrations/experiments of dynamics for download. Also they should be clear and of good quality. I want to use them in a video analysis program ... data-request physics   asked by pdmclean 3 votes Database of powered mobility device (wheelchairs, etc) activity logs? I would like to know if there exists a publicly accessible collection of activity logs of powered mobility device usage by elderly/disabled individuals. Specific contents I'm after are user input ... data-request healthcare transportation   asked by Steamed Hams 3 votes

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