- 1000 Genomes
- American Gut (Microbiome Project)
- Broad Bioimage Benchmark Collection (BBBC)
- Broad Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE)
- Cell Image Library
- Complete Genomics Public Data
- EBI ArrayExpress
- EBI Protein Data Bank in Europe
- Electron Microscopy Pilot Image Archive (EMPIAR)
- ENCODE project
- Ensembl Genomes
- Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
- Gene Ontology (GO)
- Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
- Harvard Medical School (HMS) LINCS Project
- Human Genome Diversity Project
- Human Microbiome Project (HMP)
- ICOS PSP Benchmark
- International HapMap Project
- Journal of Cell Biology DataViewer
- MIT Cancer Genomics Data
- NCBI Proteins
- NCBI Taxonomy
- NCI Genomic Data Commons
- NIH Microarray data or FTP (see FTP link on RAW)
- OpenSNP genotypes data
- Pathguid - Protein-Protein Interactions Catalog
- Protein Data Bank
- Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
- PubChem Project
- PubGene (now Coremine Medical)
- Sanger Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC)
- Sanger Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer Project (GDSC)
- Sequence Read Archive(SRA)
- Stanford Microarray Data
- Stowers Institute Original Data Repository
- Systems Science of Biological Dynamics (SSBD) Database
- The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), available via Broad GDAC
- The Catalogue of Life
- The Personal Genome Project or PGP
- UCSC Public Data
- UniGene
- Universal Protein Resource (UnitProt)
- Actuaries Climate Index
- Australian Weather
- Aviation Weather Center - Consistent, timely and accurate weather information for the world airspace system
- Brazilian Weather - Historical data (In Portuguese)
- Canadian Meteorological Centre
- Climate Data from UEA (updated monthly)
- European Climate Assessment & Dataset
- Global Climate Data Since 1929
- NASA Global Imagery Browse Services
- NOAA Bering Sea Climate
- NOAA Climate Datasets
- NOAA Realtime Weather Models
- NOAA SURFRAD Meteorology and Radiation Datasets
- The World Bank Open Data Resources for Climate Change
- UEA Climatic Research Unit
- WorldClim - Global Climate Data
- WU Historical Weather Worldwide
- AMiner Citation Network Dataset
- CrossRef DOI URLs
- DBLP Citation dataset
- DIMACS Road Networks Collection
- NBER Patent Citations
- Network Repository with Interactive Exploratory Analysis Tools
- NIST complex networks data collection
- Protein-protein interaction network
- PyPI and Maven Dependency Network
- Scopus Citation Database
- Small Network Data
- Stanford GraphBase (Steven Skiena)
- Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
- Stanford Longitudinal Network Data Sources
- The Koblenz Network Collection
- The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics (UNIMI)
- The Nexus Network Repository
- UCI Network Data Repository
- UFL sparse matrix collection
- WSU Graph Database
- 3.5B Web Pages from CommonCrawl 2012
- 53.5B Web clicks of 100K users in Indiana Univ.
- CAIDA Internet Datasets
- ClueWeb09 - 1B web pages
- ClueWeb12 - 733M web pages
- CommonCrawl Web Data over 7 years
- CRAWDAD Wireless datasets from Dartmouth Univ.
- Criteo click-through data
- OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference - Internet censorship data
- Open Mobile Data by MobiPerf
- Rapid7 Sonar Internet Scans
- UCSD Network Telescope, IPv4 /8 net
- Bruteforce Database
- Challenges in Machine Learning
- CrowdANALYTIX dataX
- D4D Challenge of Orange
- DrivenData Competitions for Social Good
- ICWSM Data Challenge (since 2009)
- Kaggle Competition Data
- KDD Cup by Tencent 2012
- Localytics Data Visualization Challenge
- Netflix Prize
- Space Apps Challenge
- Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge
- TravisTorrent Dataset - MSR'2017 Mining Challenge
- Yelp Dataset Challenge
- AQUASTAT - Global water resources and uses
- BODC - marine data of ~22K vars
- Earth Models
- EOSDIS - NASA's earth observing system data
- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - roughly 30TB of ocean measurements or on S3
- Marinexplore - Open Oceanographic Data
- Smithsonian Institution Global Volcano and Eruption Database
- USGS Earthquake Archives
- American Economic Association (AEA)
- EconData from UMD
- Economic Freedom of the World Data
- Historical MacroEconomc Statistics
- International Economics Database and various data tools
- International Trade Statistics
- Internet Product Code Database
- Joint External Debt Data Hub
- Jon Haveman International Trade Data Links
- OpenCorporates Database of Companies in the World
- Our World in Data
- SciencesPo World Trade Gravity Datasets
- The Atlas of Economic Complexity
- The Center for International Data
- The Observatory of Economic Complexity
- UN Commodity Trade Statistics
- UN Human Development Reports
- AMPds
- BLUEd
- COMBED
- Dataport
- DRED
- ECO
- EIA
- HES
- Household Electricity Study, UK
- HFED
- iAWE
- PLAID - the Plug Load Appliance Identification Dataset
- REDD
- Tracebase
- UK-DALE - UK Domestic Appliance-Level Electricity
- WHITED
- CBOE Futures Exchange
- Google Finance
- Google Trends
- NASDAQ
- NYSE Market Data (see FTP link on RAW)
- OANDA
- OSU Financial data
- Quandl
- St Louis Federal
- Yahoo Finance
- ArcGIS Open Data portal
- Cambridge, MA, US, GIS data on GitHub
- Factual Global Location Data
- Geo Spatial Data from ASU
- Geo Wiki Project - Citizen-driven Environmental Monitoring
- GeoFabrik - OSM data extracted to a variety of formats and areas
- GeoNames Worldwide
- Global Administrative Areas Database (GADM)
- Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data
- Landsat 8 on AWS
- List of all countries in all languages
- National Weather Service GIS Data Portal
- Natural Earth - vectors and rasters of the world
- OpenAddresses
- OpenStreetMap (OSM)
- Pleiades - Gazetteer and graph of ancient places
- Reverse Geocoder using OSM data & additional high-resolution data files
- TIGER/Line - U.S. boundaries and roads
- TwoFishes - Foursquare's coarse geocoder
- TZ Timezones shapfiles
- UN Environmental Data
- World boundaries from the U.S. Department of State
- World countries in multiple formats
- EveryPolitician, ongoing project collating and sharing data on every politician.
- Alberta, Province of Canada
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Argentina (non official)
- Argentina
- Austin, TX, US
- Australia (abs.gov.au)
- Australia (data.gov.au)
- Austria (data.gv.at)
- Baton Rouge, LA, US
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Calgary, AB, Canada
- Cambridge, MA, US
- Canada
- Chicago
- Chile
- Dallas Open Data
- DataBC - data from the Province of British Columbia
- Denver Open Data
- Durham, NC Open Data
- Edmonton, AB, Canada
- England LGInform
- EuroStat
- FedStats
- Finland
- France
- Fredericton, NB, Canada
- Gatineau, QC, Canada
- Germany
- Ghent, Belgium
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Greece
- Guardian world governments
- Halifax, NS, Canada
- Helsinki Region, Finland
- Hong Kong, China
- Houston Open Data
- Indian Government Data
- Indonesian Data Portal
- Ireland's Open Data Portal
- Japan
- Laval, QC, Canada
- Lexington, KY
- London Datastore, UK
- London, ON, Canada
- Los Angeles Open Data
- MassGIS, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Mexico
- Missisauga, ON, Canada
- Moldova
- Moncton, NB, Canada
- Montreal, QC, Canada
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- NYC betanyc
- NYC Open Data
- OECD
- Oklahoma
- Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India
- Oregon
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Portland, Oregon
- Portugal - Pordata organization
- Puerto Rico Government
- Quebec City, QC, Canada
- Quebec Province of Canada
- Regina SK, Canada
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Romania
- Russia
- San Francisco Data sets
- Saskatchewan, Province of Canada
- Seattle
- Singapore Government Data
- South Africa
- South Africa Trade Statistics
- State of Utah, US
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Taiwan g0v
- Texas Open Data
- The World Bank
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Tunisia
- U.K. Government Data
- U.S. American Community Survey
- U.S. CDC Public Health datasets
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- U.S. Federal Government Agencies
- U.S. Federal Government Data Catalog
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- U.S. Open Government
- Uganda Bureau of Statistics
- UK 2011 Census Open Atlas Project
- United Nations
- Uruguay
- Vancouver, BC Open Data Catalog
- Victoria, BC, Canada
- Vienna, Austria
- EHDP Large Health Data Sets
- Gapminder World demographic databases
- Medicare Coverage Database (MCD), U.S.
- Medicare Data Engine of medicare.gov Data
- Medicare Data File
- MeSH, the vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed
- Number of Ebola Cases and Deaths in Affected Countries (2014)
- Open-ODS (structure of the UK NHS)
- OpenPaymentsData, Healthcare financial relationship data
- The Cancer Genome Atlas project (TCGA) and BigQuery table
- World Health Organization Global Health Observatory
- 10k US Adult Faces Database
- 2GB of Photos of Cats or Archive version
- Adience Unfiltered faces for gender and age classification
- Affective Image Classification
- Animals with attributes
- Caltech Pedestrian Detection Benchmark
- Chars74K dataset, Character Recognition in Natural Images (both English and Kannada are available)
- Face Recognition Benchmark
- GDXray: X-ray images for X-ray testing and Computer Vision
- ImageNet (in WordNet hierarchy)
- Indoor Scene Recognition
- International Affective Picture System, UFL
- Massive Visual Memory Stimuli, MIT
- MNIST database of handwritten digits, near 1 million examples
- Several Shape-from-Silhouette Datasets
- Stanford Dogs Dataset
- SUN database, MIT
- The Action Similarity Labeling (ASLAN) Challenge
- The Oxford-IIIT Pet Dataset
- Violent-Flows - Crowd Violence Non-violence Database and benchmark
- Visual genome
- YouTube Faces Database
- Context-aware data sets from five domains
- Delve Datasets for classification and regression (Univ. of Toronto)
- Discogs Monthly Data
- eBay Online Auctions (2012)
- IMDb Database
- Keel Repository for classification, regression and time series
- Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW)
- Lending Club Loan Data
- Machine Learning Data Set Repository
- Million Song Dataset
- More Song Datasets
- MovieLens Data Sets
- New Yorker caption contest ratings
- RDataMining - "R and Data Mining" ebook data
- Registered Meteorites on Earth
- Restaurants Health Score Data in San Francisco
- UCI Machine Learning Repository
- Yahoo! Ratings and Classification Data
- Youtube 8m
- Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation's Open Data
- Cooper-Hewitt's Collection Database
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts metadata
- Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal
- Rijksmuseum Historical Art Collection
- Tate Collection metadata
- The Getty vocabularies
- Automatic Keyphrase Extracttion
- Blogger Corpus
- CLiPS Stylometry Investigation Corpus
- ClueWeb09 FACC
- ClueWeb12 FACC
- DBpedia - 4.58M things with 583M facts
- Flickr Personal Taxonomies
- Freebase.com of people, places, and things
- Google Books Ngrams (2.2TB)
- Google MC-AFP, generated based on the public available Gigaword dataset using Paragraph Vectors
- Google Web 5gram (1TB, 2006)
- Gutenberg eBooks List
- Hansards text chunks of Canadian Parliament
- Machine Comprehension Test (MCTest) of text from Microsoft Research
- Machine Translation of European languages
- Microsoft MAchine Reading COmprehension Dataset (or MS MARCO)
- Multi-Domain Sentiment Dataset (version 2.0)
- Open Multilingual Wordnet
- Personae Corpus
- SaudiNewsNet Collection of Saudi Newspaper Articles (Arabic, 30K articles)
- SMS Spam Collection in English
- Universal Dependencies
- USENET postings corpus of 2005~2011
- Webhose - News/Blogs in multiple languages
- Wikidata - Wikipedia databases
- Wikipedia Links data - 40 Million Entities in Context
- WordNet databases and tools
- Allen Institute Datasets
- Brain Catalogue
- Brainomics
- CodeNeuro Datasets
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
- FCP-INDI
- Human Connectome Project
- NDAR
- NeuroData
- Neuroelectro
- NIMH Data Archive
- OASIS
- OpenfMRI
- Study Forrest
- CERN Open Data Portal
- Crystallography Open Database
- NASA Exoplanet Archive
- NSSDC (NASA) data of 550 space spacecraft
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) - Mapping the Universe
- Amazon
- Archive-it from Internet Archive
- Archive.org Datasets
- CMU JASA data archive
- CMU StatLab collections
- Data.World
- Data360
- Datamob.org
- Infochimps
- KDNuggets Data Collections
- Microsoft Azure Data Market Free DataSets
- Microsoft Data Science for Research
- Numbray
- Open Library Data Dumps
- Reddit Datasets
- RevolutionAnalytics Collection
- Sample R data sets
- Stats4Stem R data sets
- StatSci.org
- The Washington Post List
- UCLA SOCR data collection
- UFO Reports
- Wikileaks 911 pager intercepts
- Yahoo Webscope
Movies Recommendation:
- MovieLens - Movie Recommendation Data Sets http://www.grouplens.org/node/73
- Yahoo! - Movie, Music, and Images Ratings Data Sets http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r
- Jester - Movie Ratings Data Sets (Collaborative Filtering Dataset) http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/jester-data/
- Cornell University - Movie-review data for use in sentiment-analysis experiments http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/pabo/movie-review-data/
Music Recommendation:
- Last.fm - Music Recommendation Data Sets http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~ocelma/MusicRecommendationDataset/index.html
- Yahoo! - Movie, Music, and Images Ratings Data Sets http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r
- Audioscrobbler - Music Recommendation Data Sets http://www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~bergstrj/audioscrobbler_data.html
- Amazon - Audio CD recommendations http://131.193.40.52/data/
Books Recommendation:
- Institut für Informatik, Universität Freiburg - Book Ratings Data Sets http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/
Food Recommendation:
- Chicago Entree - Food Ratings Data Sets http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Entree+Chicago+Recommendation+Data
Merchandise Recommendation:
- Amazon - Product Recommendation Data Sets http://131.193.40.52/data/
Healthcare Recommendation:
- Nursing Home - Provider Ratings Data Set http://data.medicare.gov/dataset/Nursing-Home-Compare-Provider-Ratings/mufm-vy8d
- Hospital Ratings - Survey of Patients Hospital Experiences http://data.medicare.gov/dataset/Survey-of-Patients-Hospital-Experiences-HCAHPS-/rj76-22dk
Dating Recommendation:
- www.libimseti.cz - Dating website recommendation (collaborative filtering) http://www.occamslab.com/petricek/data/
Scholarly Paper Recommendation:
- National University of Singapore - Scholarly Paper Recommendation http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~sugiyama/SchPaperRecData.html
- Academic Torrents of data sharing from UMB
- Datahub.io
- DataMarket (Qlik)
- Harvard Dataverse Network of scientific data
- ICPSR (UMICH)
- Institute of Education Sciences
- National Technical Reports Library
- Open Data Certificates (beta)
- OpenDataNetwork - A search engine of all Socrata powered data portals
- Statista.com - statistics and Studies
- Zenodo - An open dependable home for the long-tail of science
- 72 hours #gamergate Twitter Scrape
- Ancestry.com Forum Dataset over 10 years
- Cheng-Caverlee-Lee September 2009 - January 2010 Twitter Scrape
- CMU Enron Email of 150 users
- EDRM Enron EMail of 151 users, hosted on S3
- Facebook Data Scrape (2005)
- Facebook Social Networks from LAW (since 2007)
- Foursquare from UMN/Sarwat (2013)
- GitHub Collaboration Archive
- Google Scholar citation relations
- High-Resolution Contact Networks from Wearable Sensors
- Mobile Social Networks from UMASS
- Network Twitter Data
- Reddit Comments
- Skytrax' Air Travel Reviews Dataset
- Social Twitter Data
- SourceForge.net Research Data
- Twitter Data for Online Reputation Management
- Twitter Data for Sentiment Analysis
- Twitter Graph of entire Twitter site
- Twitter Scrape Calufa May 2011
- UNIMI/LAW Social Network Datasets
- Yahoo! Graph and Social Data
- Youtube Video Social Graph in 2007,2008
- ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project)
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- Center for Systemic Peace Datasets - Conflict Trends, Polities, State Fragility, etc
- Correlates of War Project
- Cryptome Conspiracy Theory Items
- Datacards
- European Social Survey
- FBI Hate Crime 2013 - aggregated data
- Fragile States Index
- GDELT Global Events Database
- General Social Survey (GSS) since 1972
- German Social Survey
- Global Religious Futures Project
- Humanitarian Data Exchange
- INFORM Index for Risk Management
- Institute for Demographic Studies
- International Networks Archive
- International Social Survey Program ISSP
- International Studies Compendium Project
- James McGuire Cross National Data
- MacroData Guide by Norsk samfunnsvitenskapelig datatjeneste
- Minnesota Population Center
- MIT Reality Mining Dataset
- Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (NG-DAIN)
- Open Crime and Policing Data in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Paul Hensel General International Data Page
- PewResearch Internet Survey Project
- PewResearch Society Data Collection
- Political Polarity Data
- StackExchange Data Explorer
- Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium
- Texas Inmates Executed Since 1984
- Titanic Survival Data Set or on Kaggle
- UCB's Archive of Social Science Data (D-Lab)
- UCLA Social Sciences Data Archive
- UN Civil Society Database
- Universities Worldwide
- UPJOHN for Labor Employment Research
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
- World Bank Open Data
- WorldPop project - Worldwide human population distributions
- Basketball (NBA/NCAA/Euro) Player Database and Statistics
- Betfair Historical Exchange Data
- Cricsheet Matches (cricket)
- Ergast Formula 1, from 1950 up to date (API)
- Football/Soccer resources (data and APIs)
- Lahman's Baseball Database
- Pinhooker: Thoroughbred Bloodstock Sale Data
- Retrosheet Baseball Statistics
- Tennis database of rankings, results, and stats for ATP, WTA, Grand Slams and Match Charting Project
- Databanks International Cross National Time Series Data Archive
- Hard Drive Failure Rates
- Heart Rate Time Series from MIT
- Time Series Data Library (TSDL) from MU
- UC Riverside Time Series Dataset
- Airlines OD Data 1987-2008
- Bay Area Bike Share Data
- Bike Share Systems (BSS) collection
- GeoLife GPS Trajectory from Microsoft Research
- German train system by Deutsche Bahn
- Hubway Million Rides in MA
- Marine Traffic - ship tracks, port calls and more
- Montreal BIXI Bike Share
- NYC Taxi Trip Data 2009-
- NYC Taxi Trip Data 2013 (FOIA/FOILed)
- NYC Uber trip data April 2014 to September 2014
- Open Traffic collection
- OpenFlights - airport, airline and route data
- Philadelphia Bike Share Stations (JSON)
- Plane Crash Database, since 1920
- RITA Airline On-Time Performance data
- RITA/BTS transport data collection (TranStat)
- Toronto Bike Share Stations (XML file)
- Transport for London (TFL)
- Travel Tracker Survey (TTS) for Chicago
- U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
- U.S. Domestic Flights 1990 to 2009
- U.S. Freight Analysis Framework since 2007
- Data Packaged Core Datasets
- Database of Scientific Code Contributions
- A growing collection of public datasets: CoolDatasets.
- DataWrangling: Some Datasets Available on the Web
- Inside-r: Finding Data on the Internet
- OpenDataMonitor: An overview of available open data resources in Europe
- Quora: Where can I find large datasets open to the public?
- RS.io: 100+ Interesting Data Sets for Statistics
- StaTrek: Leveraging open data to understand urban lives
This list of public datasets is a goldmine! block blast online