Which companies provide academic dataset like Yelp?

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For my data mining project this semester at school, I was hoping to work on something besides the UCI repository dataset. Yelp seems a pretty good option, but would like to know if there are any more such options available.

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Is there a specific type of data or industry you're interested in? There's a ton of government data floating around, a lot of which is located at http://data.gov/

Some other sites to look into: kaggle.com, http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/ghdx, factual.com, infochimps.com

There's always the classic Netflix recommendation challenge from a few years ago too

I'm inclined towards tv sitcoms/music data, but thanks for the links.

Too bad Pandora hasn't done a data dump.

What about piggy backing off Wikipedia (which you ca download) or IMDB for seeing connections

If you want music data, I believe Last.fm's API can deliver some useful info to you.

What is the project concerning?

Nothing concrete I've in my head, it's for my school data mining course.

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