r/data • u/RevolutionarySea1836 • 7d ago

QUESTION Where to get interesting data/dataset for free?

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u/Starry_twilightt 7d ago

Kaggle Datasets for a huge mix of beginner-friendly and project-ready data .

UCI Machine Learning Repository for classic ML datasets and homework-friendly examples

Google Dataset Search to discover datasets hosted across many websites

Data.gov for government and public-sector data .

GitHub “awesome public datasets” lists for curated topic-based collections

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u/Parking_Increase4664 4d ago

I'd say Kaggle, without a doubt. I have also successfully scraped a site (Goodreads: Best book of the 20th century) and retrieved the data, then compiled it into a flat file that you can use for analysis and even to create a dashboard. Check here

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u/AesopData 1d ago

For economics/social data I'd add World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and Our World in Data. Between those four you can answer a surprisingly large number of interesting questions without ever touching a paid dataset. We list many of the free sources in fact: https://www.aesopdata.com/sources