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Public Government Datasets

Users discuss and share sources for accessing public US government datasets, including APIs like data.gov, bulk downloads, structured formats, and aggregators.

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e.g propublica.org US data.pdf treasury.gov LLM NOAA noaa.gov data.gov CSV data datasets public dataset data available gov scrape api download database

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brudgers • Sep 11, 2016 • View on HN

Frictionlessdata at Github: https://github.com/frictionlessdata

tnt128 • Sep 9, 2017 • View on HN

Does anyone if there is a public source for these data?

97s • Sep 2, 2014 • View on HN

Does anyone know a list of the sites they got this data from?

moonchild • Apr 3, 2020 • View on HN

Is this data available in structured format anywhere, or do you have to scrape the pdfs?

yantra_ml • Apr 2, 2019 • View on HN

Have you tried looking into data.gov. They have really good dataset you might find it useful.

everybodyknows • Apr 3, 2019 • View on HN

Propublica list of data sets, some offering free download:https://www.propublica.org/datastore/datasets

aVx1uyD5pYWW • Nov 20, 2020 • View on HN

how was this data acquired? did you scrape government websites for this data?

tmaly • Oct 25, 2017 • View on HN

most public data on government websites in the US

dougSF70 • Nov 3, 2020 • View on HN

You should check out decadata.io

adamredwoods • Jul 17, 2019 • View on HN

Is there bulk data that the public can download?