Demo data repositories & Mock data creation

• Government open data
  • Census.gov - US Census data
  • Crime Data Explorer - US FBI Crime Data information
  • Data.gov - US Government open data
  • Data.gov.uk - UK Government open data
  • EU Open Data Portal - European Union open data
  • Healthdata.gov - US healthcare data including claim-level Medicare data, epidemiology and population statistics
  • Library of Congress - US Library of Congress free to use/reuse data sets
  • Analyze Boston - Boston, MA, USA open data hub
  • Cambridge, MA, USA open data
• Awesome Public Datasets - Repo linking to many other public data set repositories
• Amazon AWS open data registry
  • Amazon Customer Reviews - 130+ million customer product reviews are part of this dataset
  • Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT)
• Five Thirty Eight data archive - Sata and code behind some of FiveThirtyEight articles and graphics
  • Bob Ross painting subject data - Data behind A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross
• Gapminder
  • Gapminder Data
  • Gapminder Google Drive
• IMDB Datasets
• Kaggle
• Microsoft Research open data - A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research to advance state-of-the-art research in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and domain specific sciences
• MusicBrainz
• Mockaroo - Mock data creation
• Makeover Monday
• OpenStreetMap
• Pew Research Dataset
• Reddit /r/datasets
• Sports Viz Sunday
• Stack Exchange Database
  • Official data dump on Archive.org - You'll need to do some work to import this
  • SQL Server database version of the data dump as a torrent - Brent Ozar's turned this into a SQL Server database so you don't have to