Links to Open Data

Listed here are some sites where open data is available:

Avoindata.fi https://www.avoindata.fi/en

• Finnish social data can be found here. Statistics regarding air quality, the use of city bikes, vehicle registry, etc.

Gapminder https://www.gapminder.org/data/

• Gapminder is an organization from Sweden, which focuses on data on societal progress in developing countries. For example, infant mortality rates, energy consumption, demographics, and much more.

Worldbank https://databank.worldbank.org/home

• The World Bank’s databank contains a huge amount of data–usually by country–ranging from CO2 emissions to gender equality statistics.
• See also the World Bank’s climate knowledge portal

CERN Open Data Portal http://opendata.cern.ch/

• Huge amounts of experimental data intended for research and education. The filter tool allows you to sort the material by measuring station or file format.

Zenodo https://zenodo.org/

• Multidisciplinary open research data directory service. Created and maintained by CERN and OpenAIRE.

Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/

• A large reservoir of information, graphs, and source references on a wide range of topics.

Open Power System Data https://open-power-system-data.org/

• Data on electricity networks and energy production in Europe.

Solar Influence Data Center http://sidc.oma.be/silso/datafiles

• Data from long-term studies of the Sun’s activity. Sunspot observations date back to the 18th century.

USGS Earthquake Hazards https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/

• Live data on world earthquakes, also available in csv format.

Awesome Public Datasets https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

• A large collection of public domain data from different areas, such as video games, banking, or neuroscience, nominally curated according to availability.