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Sources of Big Open Data

This page links to various places where large (hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes) open data sets can be obtained for analysis using big data techniques.

Swiss

TBD

Worldwide

DBpedia Downloads - semantically interlinked Wikipedia content
Planet.osm - bulk downloads of Open Street Map
GeoFabrik.de - extracts of OSM per-content
Arxiv bulk access - science articles preprints
Open Library - 20 million editions, 6 million authors
BioTorrents - (legal!) open data torrents
Visible Earth - NASA's image archives
ESA Mission data - some data in the products and campaigns require registration/application
Public Library of Science - can be scraped

USA specific

Open States - bills & legislatures from the US
Geospatial Data Gateway - USDA environmental and natural resources data
Enron Email Dataset - 500K messages