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Enigma.io is great for public data too.

I took another look at the Enigma.io public datasets. Over 50% of all the public datasets are from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Finance data is boring. :P

Quandl (https://www.quandl.com/browse) is similar to Engima, except they got rid of all the fun datasets and added more finance/economic datasets. Hmrph.

While the FRED data might be ~%50 of the datasets, most of those table are 200-4000 rows, it is not nearly %50 of the rows of data.

the remaining 50% of datasets have a lot of gems

quality in the breadth of data is important

state-wide liquor license, corp reg. OSHA is great data. AMS shipping records. FDA adverse events. Oil and Gas well locations/production. Consolidated weather reports since 1800... im almost certainly forgetting some.

Are there sites that have datasets other than financial? (I also think financial data is too dry, boring)

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